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porous

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evading a precise or holistic definition

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subject to constant attempts at ascribing a meaning, due to a legal rule's vagueness or multiple interpretations

Lacking any clear textual or historical definition of its own, the phrase "probable cause" is every bit as open-textured as these other terms of art and is every bit in need of sound analytical and doctrinal exposition.

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Lacking any clear textual or historical definition of its own, the phrase "probable cause" is every bit as open-textured as these other terms of art and is every bit in need of sound analytical and do

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