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IN ABSENTIA

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Latin phrase meaning "in absence" and referring to the lack of someone's physical presence at the time. See also "death in absentia" which is a presumption of person's death without a physical corpse or skeletal remains.   … [Read more...] about IN ABSENTIA

IMPROVIDENTLY

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A judgment, decree, rule, injunction, etc., when given or rendered without adequate consideration by the court, or without proper information as to all the circumstances affecting it, or based upon a mistaken assumption or misleading information or advice, is sometimes said to have been "improvidently" given or issued. … [Read more...] about IMPROVIDENTLY

IN ACTION

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Attainable or recoverable by action; not in possession. A term applied to property of which a party has not the possession, but only a right to recover it by action. Things in action are rights of personal things, which nevertheless are not in possession. See CHOSE IN ACTION. … [Read more...] about IN ACTION