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This phrase is used in a traverse de injuria, by which the plaintiff affirms that without the cause in his plea alleged he did commit the said trespasses. (Latin: without such cause.) Formal words in the now obsolete replication de injuria. … [Read more...] about ABSQUE TALI CAUSA

See abut; properties that are neighboring or have shared boundaries. (From abut, q. v.) Commonly defined "the buttings and boundings of lands, east, west, north, and south, showing on what other lands, highways, or places they abut, or are limited and bounded." … [Read more...] about ABUTTALS

Latin for An absolute judgment or sentence needs no expositor (an expositor is a person or thing that explains a complicated idea or a theory). … [Read more...] about ABSOLUTA SENTENTIA EXPOSITORE NON INDIGET

In French law. Keeping an heir from possession; also tacit renunciation of a succession by an heir. … [Read more...] about ABSTENTION

Eng. law. In order to give jurisdiction to a court, a cause of action over which the court has jurisdiction is alleged, and also, (ac etiam) another cause of action over which, without being joined with the first, the court would have no jurisdiction; for example, to the usual complaint of breaking the plaintiff's close, over which the court has jurisdiction, a clause is added … [Read more...] about AC ETIAM