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All this would subject the aggrieved parties to much dilatory, expensive and needless litigation, which your memorialist prays your honorable body to dispense with by appropriate legislation, as there can be no purpose in special arguments "_ad inconvenienti_," enlarging or contracting the import of the language of the Constitution.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

Now, with entire respect to that court, it is submitted that this argument _ab inconvenienti_, which might have been urged with whatever force belongs to it, against adopting the XIV.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

On the whole, I should think it best to decide it ab inconvenienti; to wit, Which is most inconvenient, to put it in the power of one side of the House to defeat a proposition by hastily moving the previous question and thus forcing the main question to be put amended? or to put it in the power of the other side to force on, incidentally at least, a discussion which would be better avoided?

A MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE 1853