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Absorption

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

absorption


: the application to the states of rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution [while Powell [v. Alabama] was sometimes described as having absorbed the right to counsel, the Court there clearly limited any such "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"]




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