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Able-Bodied

As used in a statute relating to service in the militia, tills term does not imply an absolute freedom from all physical aliment It imports an absence of those palpable and visible defects which evi-dently incapacitate the person from performing the ordinary duties of a soldier. Darling v. Bowen, 10 Vt 152

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)