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The following 3 entries include the term abuse of.
abuse of discretion
: an error of judgment by a trial court in making a ruling that is clearly unreasonable, erroneous, or arbitrary and not justified by the facts or the law applicable in the case compare clearly erroneous
abuse of process
: the tort of bringing and following through with a civil or criminal action for a purpose known to be different from the purpose for which the action was designed compare malicious prosecution
abuse of the writ
: the improper raising of a habeus corpus claim that should have been raised in an earlier petition
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