LATIN. Without. Used chiefly in such phrases 88Absque aliquo inde redendo: Without rendering anything therefrom. A grant from the Crown reserving no rent. 2 Rolle, Abr. 502. Absque hoc: Without this. Technical words of exception which were made use of in a special traverse; as, the defendant pleads that such a thing was done at B., &c., without this (absque hoc). Bull. N. P. 93; 6 Com. Dig. 167; 1 Saund. 21; Dyer. 112. Absque impetitione vasti: Without impeachment of waste. A reservation frequently made to a tenant for life, that no man shall impetere or sue him for waste committed. Absque tali causa: Without such cause. Formal words in the new obsolete replication de injurid. ABSTRACT OF TITLE.-A document containing an epitome of the deeds, devises, and incumbrances affecting the title to land, and upon which such title depends. the insertion in a conveyance, or other instru ment, of superfluous words designed to aid in expressing the party's intention, is not fatal to the instrument if, read without them, it would be valid. ABUSE.-LATIN: ab, from, and utere, to use. An improper use of a person or thing. 1. Abuse of distress, is the using an animal or chattel distrained. This makes the distrainer liable as for a conversion. 2. Abuse of process. When an adversary, through the malicious and unfounded use of some regular legal proceeding, obtains some advantage over his opponent, there is said to be an abuse of process. 3. In Civil Law, the borrower of a chattel which, in its nature, cannot be used without consuming it, such as wine or grain, is said to abuse the thing borrowed if he uses it. 4. Abuse of female child. See In England (in the absence of a stipulaRAPE. tion to the contrary), the purchaser is entitled to receive an abstract of title from the vendor, to facilitate his examination of the title, and with this object it is arranged in a peculiar manner.* ABUSE, (of corporate franchise). 3 Pittsb. (Pa.) 20. (in statute punishing carnal knowledge of female child). 58 Ala. 376. In the United States the duty of furnishing the abstract is not so definitely imposed upon the vendor, but the expenses incurred by the purchaser in its preparation are in many instances paid by the vendor, or deon another piece of land belonging to a ducted from the purchase money. This, different owner. In a deed the description however, is usually a matter of agreement, of the boundaries of the land conveyed and not regulated by statute. or leased, &c., is sometimes called the Abundans cautela non nocet: Exabuttals. (For the cases on the old rule, treme care does no harm. Under this principle that in an action of trespass the abuttals an abstract is made from a conveyance from A. to B., in which is recited a conveyance from Z. to A., the conveyance from A. to B. is said to be abstracted in chief, while that from Z. to A. is