Legal Term: QUARTERING OF SOLDIERS

Definition: The constitution of the United States, Amendm. art. 3, provides that ",no soldier shall in time of peace be quartered, in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law.", By quartering is understood boarding and lodging or either. Encycl. Amer. h. t.

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