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legal dictionary

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afortiori(ah-for-she-ory)   with even stronger reason  
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a priori assumption(a pree ory)   an assumption that is true without further proof or need to prove it.  
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abate   to do away with a problem  
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abet   to help someone commit a crime this including helping them escape  
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abeyance   when the owner=ship of property has not been determined  
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able-bodied   physically capable of working at a job or in the military  
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abrogate   to annul or repeal a law or pass legislation that contradicts the prior law  
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abscond   traditionally to leave a jurisdiction to avoid being served legal papers or being arrested  
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abstention doctrine   when the Supreme Court refuses to exercise its federal constitutional jurisdiction or declines to consider a question of state law arising from a case being appealed from a state court  
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abstract    
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