quartering of soldiers

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
QUARTERING OF SOLDIERS. The constitution of the United States, Amend. 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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