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bona vacantia

are unclaimed and without an apparent owner [it was trash, in the nature of bona vacantia, which the defendants had abandoned "United States v. Calise, 217 F. Supp. 705 (1962)"]

bill

bill brought by a plaintiff who seeks a court determination of the conflicting claims of two or more defendants to the subject matter of the suit (as money owed by the plaintiff) and who has no interest

answer

answer 1 : the defendant's written response to the plaintiff's complaint in a civil suit in which he or she may deny any

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advocate

works and argues in support of another's cause esp. in court 2 : a person or group that defends or maintains a cause or proposal [a consumer ] [ad-və-kāt] vb -cat·ed -cat·ing vt : to argue in

verdict

complaint) submitted to it in trial that ordinarily in civil actions is for the plaintiff or for the defendant and in criminal actions is guilty or not guilty compare judgment compromise verdict : a verdict produced not

Blockhouse

as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story thus enabling the defenders to fire downward and in all directions formerly much used in America and Germany

parados

An intercepting mound erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire a traverse

Gorget

A piece of armor whether of chain mail or of plate defending the throat and upper part of the breast and forming a part of the double breastplate of the

Outguard

the approach of an enemy hence anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended

VerbarNolle prosequi

for the public a prosecution either wholly or as to some count or as to some of several defendants

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