Contest - Law Dictionary Search Results
Judgment
defendant because he loses a valuable right to defend the suit and his remedy is confined only to contest the plaintiff's case on his own evidence without being given a chance to rebut that evidence. As such
litigate
of litigare, from lit-, lis lawsuit + agere to drive] vi : to seek resolution of a legal contest by judicial process [chose to rather than settle] vt : to make the subject of a suit [
game show
a television program in which contestants compete for awards The contestants are members of the public selected to participate on the show and not
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Replevin
of goods unlawfully taken (generally, but not exclusively, applicable to the taking of goods distrained for rent), by contesting the validity of the seizure, whereas, if the owner prefer to have damages instead, the validity may be
Compelling reasons
Compelling reasons, the expression 'compelling reasons' in the contest of making an order for detention of a person already in custody implies that there must be cogent
Quarrelsome
Apt or disposed to quarrel given to brawls and contention easily irritated or provoked to contest irascible choleric
Sanguinary
Attended with much bloodshed bloody murderous as a sanguinary war contest or battle
Sharpshooting
A shooting with great precision and effect hence a keen contest of wit or argument
Arrestandis bonis ne dissipentur
a writ which lay for a person whose cattle or goods were taken ban other, who during a contest was likely to make away with them, and who had not the ability to render satisfaction, Reg. Brev.
Battery
good defence to prove that the alleged battery happened by misadventure, or that it was merely an amicable contest, or that it was the correcting of a child by its parent, or the punishment of a criminal
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