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CRY Definition & Legal Meaning

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To call out aloud; to proclaim; to publish; to sell at auction. “To cry a tract of land.” Carr v. Gooch, 1 Wash. (Va.) 335, (260.) A clamor raised in the pursuit of an escaping felon. 4 BL. Comm. 293. See HUE AND CRY.

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