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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.

Anarchy

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Definition:
The absence of government.
Anarchy

Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

Definition:
The destruction of government; lawlessness; the absence of all political government; by extension, confusion in government. See Spies v. People, 122 III. 1, 253, 12 N. E. 865, 3 Am. St Rep. 320; Lewis v. Daily News Co., 81 Md. 466, 32 Atl. 246, 29 L. R. A. 59 ; People v. Most, 36 Misc. Rep. 139, 73 N. Y. Supp. 220; Von Gerichten v. Seitz, 94 App. Div. 130, 87 N. Y. Supp. 968.