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ABSOILE or ASSOILE

To pardon or set free; used with respect to deliverance from excommunication. Cowell; Kelham. Absolnta sententia expositore non in diget. An absolute sentence or proposition (one that is plain without any scruple, or absolute without any saving) needs not an expositor. 2 Inst. 533. … [Read more...] about ABSOILE or ASSOILE

ABSQUE TALI CAUSA

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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

ABUTTALS

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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

ABSOLUTA SENTENTIA EXPOSITORE NON INDIGET

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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

ABSTENTION

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

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