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Duel

a full list of celebrated duels, see Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, tit. 'Duel.' It is a misdemeanour to challenge another to fight, or to provoke another to send a challenge, R. v. Phillips, (1805) 6 East 464;

Trial

the cause is called on, or the prisoner arraigned, before the jury is sworn. The parties may then challenge the jury. (see CHALLENGE.) The pleading are then (in civil causes and misdemeanours) opened by the junior counsel

Cartel

on it, hung up in some place, and to be removed, Floria's Dict., voce 'Cartella.' Hence a written challenge openly hung up; afterwards any written challenge. See CHARTEL. An agreement between or conventional grouping of producers of

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array

jurors from which the jury will be chosen ;also : a list of the jurors' names see also challenge to the array at challenge compare venire

habeas corpus

[New Latin, literally, you should have the body for submitting] : an extraordinary writ issued upon a petition challenging the lawfulness of restraining a person who is imprisoned or otherwise in another's custody called also the Great

contest

contest : to dispute or challenge through legal procedures [ a will] [kÄ n-test] n : a challenge brought through formal or legal procedures

demurrer

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

Claim

Claim [fr. clamer, Fr.; clamo,Lat., to call], a challenge of interest of anything which is in another's possession, or at least out of a man's own possession,

Error apparent on the face of award

whether there is any legal proposition which is the basis of such an award. Where an award is challenged upon such a ground it is not permissible to read words into it or to draw inferences and

Demand

Demand [fr. demando, fr. mando, Lat., manudare, to hand-give; mander, Fr., to send for], a claim, a challenging, the asking of anything with authority, a calling upon a person for anything due. It is either in

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