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Able-Bodied

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

As used in a statute relating to service in the militia, this term does not imply an absolute freedom from all physical ailment. It imports an absence of those palpable and visible defects which evidently incapacitate the person from performing the ordinary duties of a soldier.

Darling v. Bowen, 10 Vt. 152.