单词 | ab inconvenienti |
释义 | ab inconvenientiadv. Law. From the inconvenience or difficulty involved (used with reference to an argument opposing a proposition on the grounds that it would cause hardship, inconvenience, or some other negative consequence). ΚΠ 1606 R. Persons Answere to Cooke iv. 86 A third reason is taken, ab inconveniente, to wit from this inconvenience, that if a Queene could be spiritvall head of the Church, and should marry without making hir husband King, she should be his spirituall head also. 1704 J. Basset Ess. Proposal for Catholick Communion ii. 20 In which manner of Arguing, ab Inconvenienti, there is no Absurdity, it having been before Establish'd as a certain truth, that it is impossible it should so Err. 1790 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 1 88/1 If this evidence were admitted, it would open a door to such a scene of litigation, that, independent of the Act, the argument ab inconvenienti never applied in greater force. 1839 Times 21 Nov. 5/2 I was not pressing an argument ab inconvenienti..but showing upon principle that it must be so. 1910 W. W. Willoughby Constit. Law U.S. I. xxx. 434 Justice Brown,..arguing ab inconvenienti, asserts that it could not have been the intention of Congress ‘to interfere with the existing practice, when such interference would result in imperilling the peace and good order of the islands’. 1996 Revista Juridica Univ. de Puerto Rico 65 277 Arguments ab inconvenienti were an ‘unsafe guide’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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