Defend - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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