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Ab Ardendo

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Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. From burning. The word arson is said to be derived ab ardendo; from ardendoy I. e. from burning. 4 Bl. Com. 220. See Arson, Ab aaaaetia BdH lit Injaria. From things to which one is accustomed, (or in which there has been long acquiescence,) no injury arises. Jenk. Cent. Introd. viii. If a person neglect to insist on his right, he is deemed to have abandoned it. Ambl. 645. 3 Bro. C. C 639. See Laches.