pour grossir Vactif, in order to increase the assets

Page 205. 1. 6. consigné, stated.

1. 11. les considérants du concordat, the grounds of the agreement.

1. 25. quittances sous signatures privées, receipts signed by private individuals.

1. 27. par lesquelles la religion de la cour ne saurait être surprise, by which the court cannot be deceived. Savoir is occasionally used in the sensé oî pouvoir : Je ne saurais vous le dire, I cannot tell you. The conditional expresses modest assertion.

1. 37. style de Palais, i. e. style de Palais de Justice, law-style.