ticket of leave
Americannoun
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tickets of leave
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ticket of leave
First recorded in 1725–35
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That the detectives sent on the track of Roland Mortlake have met the detectives on the track of the fugitive ticket of leave man, and that O'Grady has confessed that they are identical.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore
It is principally to the introduction of the ticket of leave system that the considerable reductions which have been effected of late years in the expences of the colony are to be ascribed.
At best indeed I was only out upon ticket of leave; but that ticket was a pretence; he had made it forfeit when he gave it.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
One hundred demerits is a ticket of leave without further parley or possibility of return.
From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Upton Sinclair
The unfortunate landowners, house proprietors, and many of the merchants, complain bitterly that they are delivered into the hands of a "convict," whose ticket of leave enables him to paralyse the industry of the country.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
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