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What does optate mean?

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  1. (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
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Having said that we could not accept the wider proposal we need not say that we refuse to optate together amongst the Justices of the Peace.
Moreover, he could not optate to proceed by way of indictment rather than by way of summary conviction.
I think plaintiff must optate between his two causes of action, and while he may have both, I am not called upon to pronounce as to that.
As there were two claimants to the several deaconries, titles, and sees, he proposed to settle the dispute by permitting one of them in succession to optate to the first vacant place in his order.
The dilatory exception is maintained, and plaintiff is ordered to optate between his two demands within a delay of fifteen days.

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