Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without this or that: specifically used, in law, in traversing what has been alleged and is repeated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

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  • phrase law The technical words of denial used in denying what has been alleged.

Etymologies

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Latin absque ("without") hoc ("this")

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