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In practice. Higher; superior. The court to which a cause is removed by appeal or writ of error is called the court above. Principal; as distinguished from what is auxiliary or instrumental. Bail to the action, or special bail, is otherwise termed bail above. 3 Bl. Comm. 291. See Below. … [Read more...] about ABOVE

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

Papal ambassadors of the second rank, who are sent to a country where there is not a nuncio, with a less extensive commission than that of a nuncio. … [Read more...] about ABLEGATI