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INTRO VOCAB 1

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ABATE   To lessen or diminish; greatly lessen or reduce.  
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ABRIDGEMENT   Condensation; contraction. An epitome or compendium of another and larger work, wherein the principal ideas of the larger work are summarily contained. Abridgements of law are brief digests of law, arranged alphabetically.  
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ABROGATE   To annul, cancel, revoke, repeal, or destroy. To annul or repeal an order to rule issued by a subordinate authority; to repeal a former law by legislative act, or by usage.  
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ABSTRACT OF TITLE   A short account of the state of the title to real estate reflecting all past ownership and any interest or rights, such as a mortgage or other liens. Necessary to verify title before purchasing property.  
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ABUT   To reach; to touch. To touch at the end; be contiguous; join at a border or boundary; terminate on; end at; border on; reach or touch with an end.  
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ACCRETION   The act of growing to a thing; usually applied to the gradual and imperceptible accumulation of land by natural causes, as out of the sea or a river.  
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ACCRUED INTEREST   Interest that has been earned but is not yet received or receivable.  
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ACQUIESCENCE   Silent agreement; knowing about an action or occurrence and remaining quietly satisfied about it, or by silence, appearing to be satisfied.  
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ACQUITTAL   A formal legal determination that a person who has been charged with a crime is innocent.  
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ACT OF GOD   An act occasioned exclusively by forces of nature without the interference of any human nature.  
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