absque hoc

2 definitions found

absque hoc - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Absque hoc \Abs"que hoc\ [L., without this.] (Law)
     The technical words of denial used in traversing what has
     been alleged, and is repeated.
     [1913 Webster]

absque hoc - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ABSQUE HOC, pleading. When the pleadings were in Latin these words were
  employed in a traverse. Without this, that, (q.v.) are now used for the
  same purpose.