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Home Dictionary Name: countermandCountermand
To revoke a former command to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given as to countermand an order for goods...
Countermand
Countermand, the revocation of an act; where a thing done is afterwards, by some act or ceremony, made void by the person who did it, it is either express,or implied by law. No notice of trial may be countermanded except by consent or by leave of the Court or a judge, which leave may be given subject to such terms as to costs or otherwise as maybe just (R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI., r. 19). See NOTICE OF TRIAL....
Countermandable
Capable of being countermanded revocable...
Contramandatio placiti
Contramandatio placiti, a respiting or giving a defendant further time to answer, or a countermand of what was formerly ordered, Leg. Hen. 1, c. 59....
Continuance, notice of trial by
Continuance, notice of trial by, when notice of trial had been given, and the a plaintiff was not ready to proceed, instead of countermanding his notice, he might continue it to any sitting by notice of trial by continuance (R. 36, H.T. 1853). It could be given only one in a term, 1 Chit. Arch. It is now obsolete, notice of trial not being given now for any particular sittings. See NOTICE OF TRIAL...
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