Challenge For Cause - Law Dictionary Search Results
no contest clause
clause : a clause inserted in a will that causes a legacy to be forfeited if the legatee challenges the will by bringing a will contest … no contest clause : a clause inserted in a will that causes a legacy to be forfeited if the legatee challenges the will by bringing a will contest
Provoke
or passion as love hate or ambition hence commonly to incite as a person to action by a challenge by taunts or by defiance to exasperate to irritate to offend intolerably to cause to retaliate
recuse
To refuse or reject as a judge to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause
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Bill of exceptions
Bill of exceptions. Prior to the Judicature Acts, if a judge, at the trial of a cause at Nisi Prius, mistook the law, either in directing a judgment of nonsuit or in refusing or admitting … Prius, mistook the law, either in directing a judgment of nonsuit or in refusing or admitting evidence or challenges, and other matters, the counsel for the party dissatisfied with the ruling of the judge might tender a
Material facts and material particulars
Material facts and material particulars, all those facts which are essential to clothe the petitioner with a complete cause of action, are 'material facts' which must be pleaded, and failure to plead even a single material fact … has to meet and to enable him to prepare for trial in a case where his election is challenged on the ground of any corrupt practice, Roop Lal Sathi v. Nachhattar Singh Gill, AIR 1982 SC 1559:
habeas corpus
writ is not limited to criminal matters. It is also available in civil matters, as, for example, to challenge a person's custody of a child or the institutionalization of a person declared incompetent. habeas corpus ad tes·ti·fi·can·dum … witness habeas corpus cum cau·sa [-kəm-kȯ-zə, -km-ka-sÄ ] [New Latin, literally, you should have the body with the cause] : a writ issued from a superior court to an inferior court requiring that a defendant be produced
demurrer
a complaint or indictment) that admits its truth but also asserts that it is not sufficient as a cause of action compare confession and avoidance NOTE: Demurrers are no longer used in federal civil or criminal procedure … sufficient to create a question of fact for the jury to decide general demurrer : a demurrer that challenges the sufficiency of the substance of allegation special demurrer : a demurrer that challenges the structure or form
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