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(Without rendering anything therefrom.) A grant from the crown reserving no rent. 2 Rolle, Abr. 502. … [Read more...] about ABSQUE ALIQUO INDE BEDENDO

A misuse of power by someone in a position of authority who can use the leverage they have to oppress persons in an inferior position or to induce them to commit a wrongful act. … [Read more...] about ABUSE OF POWER

As used In a statute relating to service in the militia, this term does not imply an absolute freedom from all physical ailment. It imports an absence of those palpable and visible defects which evidently incapacitate the person from performing the ordinary duties of a soldier. Darling v. Bowen, 10 Vt 152. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Having ability or capable … [Read more...] about ABLE-BODIED

Quoted before. A figurative expression taken from the ancient manner of writing books on scrolls, where whatever is mentioned or cited before in the same roll must be above. Encyc. Lond. … [Read more...] about ABOVE CITED, or MENTIONED

English law. A defendant who pleads a frivolous plea, or a plea merely for the purpose of delaying the suit; or who for the same purpose, shall file a similar demurrer, may be compelled by rule in term time, or by a Judge's order in vacation, either to abide by that plea, or by that demurrer, or to plead peremptorily on the morrow; or if near the end of the term, and in order … [Read more...] about ABIDING BY PLEA