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ANTE Definition & Legal Meaning

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Lat. Before. Usually employed in old pleadings as expressive of time, as prw (before) was of place, and coram (before) of person. Townsh. PI. 22. Occurring in a report or a text-book, it is used to refer the reader to a previous part of the book.

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