an exercisable legal power

In the Guardian for 2 November 1989, Katie Campbell mentioned the disparaging See You Next Tuesday as a description for an unreliable young man (= cunt), and commented: 'Imagine a word so powerful that it has to be disguised, even when used as a term of abuse.'

No sooner was she out of hearing, And not expos'd to take alarm, Than from my restless couch I sprung, As if by swarming wasps bestung.

After a good harvest the caban fetches four reales; but just before the harvest the price rises to one dollar, and often much higher.