Skip to content

Defend - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Liquidator

this property or any part of it may vest in him on his application. He may bring or defend actions relating to that property in his own official name (s. 190). Powers which he may exercise subject

Liquidated demand

recovery of a liquidated sum the writ of summons may be specially endorsed; see the title LEAVE TO DEFEND.

Indorsement of claim

shall be made on every writ of summons before it is issued (r. 1). See, further, LEAVE TO DEFEND

Keep your definitions linked to case research

In forma pauperis

discretionary indulgence was confined to plaintiffs at Common Law, but was extended by Courts of (English) Equity to defendants. The statute 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, is repealed by the Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act,

Estovers, or estouviers

estouviers [fr. estoffer, Fr., to furnish, or festover, Fr., i.e., fovere, Lat., to keep warm, cherish, sustain, or defend]. Bote, any kind of sustenance; also a wife's alimony. Estoveria sunt ardendi, arandi, construendi et claudendi. 13 Rep.

Emergency

any part of it. Is a situation in which the head of the State assumes extraordinary powers for defending the State against external threats and for maintaining internal order, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, Published by

Double or treble costs

Double or treble costs have been frequently granted by statute, e.g., to successful defendants in actions for irregular distress, by the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19),

Denman's (Mr.) Act

c. 18 (the Criminal Procedure Act, 1865,), allowing counsel to sum up the evidence where the prisoner is defended by counsel, proof to be given of contradictory statements of adverse witness, and of previous conviction of witness,

Fieri facias

1 KB 1. A writ of execution that directs a marshal or sheriff to seize and sell a defendants property to satisfy a money judgment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 641. The sheriff cannot sell before

Defensiva

Defensiva, a lord or earl of the marches, who were the wardens or defenders of their country, Cowel.

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial