"Take" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

1. To lay hold of; to gain or receive into possession; to seize; to deprive one of the possession of; to assume ownership. Thus, it is a constitutional provision that a man's property shall not be taken tor public uses without just compensation. Ev-ansville & C. R. Co. v. Dick, 9 Ind. 433

To please; to gain reception; to succeed.

The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.

To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture;
as, to take picture of a person.

To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or
intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but
the virus did not take.

To draw; to deduce; to derive.

Taken.

To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse
or reject; to admit.

To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.

To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have
recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.

To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to
take the breath from one; to take two from four.

That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish
captured at one haul or catch.

To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to
dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in
opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to
consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to
be man's motive; to take men for spies.

To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake
of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.

To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to
bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general
senses; as, to take a form or shape.

In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
endure; to acknowledge; to accept.

To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to
one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to
enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and
adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a
following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a
resolution; I take the liberty to say.

To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the
custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or
will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a
city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack;
to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.

Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear;
as, to take a hedge or fence.

To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to
tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from
no man.

To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.

To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over;
as, he took the book to the bindery.

To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's
self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard
pressed, took to the hedge.

To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his
face does not take well.

To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.

In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the
hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to
procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.