Abuse
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
v. To make exeessive or improper use of a thing, or to employ it in a manner contrary to the natural or legal rules for its use; to make an extravagant or excessive use, as to abuse one’s authority. In the civil law, the borrower of a chattel which, in ita nature, cannot be used without consuming it, such a8 Wine or grain, is said to abuse the thing borrowed if he uses it.