Able Bodied
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Ability to perform work usually performed by able-bodied men. The existence of a slight disability not resulting in impairment is immaterial. 29 111. App. 382.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An absence of those palpable and physical defects which evidently incapacitate a person from performing the ordinary duties of a soldier. Darling v. Bowen, 10 Vt. 148. Ability to perform ordinary labor is not the test. Town of Marlborough v. Sisson, 26 Conn. 57.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
As used in a statute relating to service in the militia, this term doves not imply an absolute freedoin from all physieal ailment. It imports an absence of those palpable and visible defects which evidently incapacitate the person from performing the ordinary duties of a soldier, 10 Vt, 152.