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heir

his or her lawful portion of the decedent's estate by disinherison without just cause see also legitime heir ab in·tes·ta·to [-ab-in-tes-tā-tō, -Ä b-in-tes-tÄ -tō] pl: heirs ab intestato in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir

abrogate

abrogate -gat·ed -gat·ing [Latin abrogare, from ab- off + rogare ask, ask for approval of (a law)] : to

Ratio

thus the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by 36 or 12 of a to b by ab or less commonly the second term is made the dividend as ab ba

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A vinculo matrimonii

canonical impediment existing before marriage and not arising afterwards, for the marriage was declared void, as having been absolutely unlawful ab initio, and the parties were therefore separated pro salute animarum (for the safety of their souls),

Custom stations

Custom stations, a customs station has, by reason of the explanation to s. 2(ab), the same meaning as in the Customs Act, 1962, and that is: 'any customs port, customs airport or land customs station', Minerals...

Pre-contract

parties to a public marriage, and if one of them had already married, such marriage would be void ab initio; but until thus avoided it was good. See 32 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 2 & 3

Fast-day

Fast-day, a day of mortification by religious ab-stinence. See a list of Church of England Fast-days in the Prayer-book Calendar Scheduled to the (English) Calendar (New

Further

therefore is the continuation of the earlier investigation and not a fresh investigation or reinvestigation to be started ab initio wiping out the earlier investigation al-together, K. Chandra Shekhar v. State of Kerala, AIR 1998 SC 2001

Illegal, incorrect or irregular decree and void decree

an order, a decree or order passed by such court would be without jurisdiction, non est and void ab initio. A defect of jurisdiction of the court goes to the root of the matter and strikes at

Infant

See AGE. At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided into three classes: 1st. Those which are absolutely void; such as are positively injurious to the interests of the infant, and can only operate to his

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