HARDSHIP

hardship. 1. Privation; suffering or adversity. 2. The severity with which a proposed construction of law would bear on a particular case, sometimes forming a basis (also known as an argument ab inconvenienti) against the construction. See AB INCONVENIENTI; HARD CASE. [Cases: Statutes 181(2). C.J.S. Statutes § 318.] 3. Family law. A condition that makes […]