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abridge definition - legal

v

  1. To diminish, lessen, or restrict a legal right.
  2. To condense or shorten the whole of something, such as a book, and not merely a portion of it.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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