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Referring to an employee who is regularly late or fails to show for work. … [Read more...] about ABSENTEEISM

pleading. When the pleadings were in Latin these words were employed in a traverse. Without this. These are technical words of denial, used in pleading at common law by way of special traverse, to introduce the negative part of the plea, following the affirmative part or inducement. … [Read more...] about ABSQUE HOC

When two parcels of land or real estate touch each other or share a common boundary. To reach, to touch. In old law, the ends were said to abut, the sides to adjoin. Property is described as "abutting" on a street, road, etc, when it adjoins or is adjacent thereto, either in the sense of actually touching it or being practically contiguous to it, being separated by no more than … [Read more...] about ABUT

A parliament so called was held at Dublin, 10th May, 8 Hen. VIII. It is mentioned in letters patent 29 Hen. VIII. Absentem accipere debenvus enm qui non est eo loci in quo petitnr. We ought to consider him absent who is not in the place where he is demanded. Dig. 50, 16, 199. Absentia ejus qui reipnblicse causa abest, neque ei neque alii damnosa esse debet. The absence of him … [Read more...] about ABSENTEES or DES ABSENTEES

Without impeachment of waste; without accountability for waste; without liability to suit for waste. A clause anciently often inserted in leases, (as the equivalent English phrase sometimes is.) signifying that the tenant or lessee shall not be liable to suit, {im petitio,) or challenged, or called to account, for committing waste. 2 Bl. Comm. 283; 4 Kent, Comm. 78; Co. Litt … [Read more...] about ABSQUE IMPETITIONE VASTI