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barren and unprofitable ground, Co. Litt. 5 a. --Delay. Mere delay has no legal result where express or implied promptness could

the appeal on the last day but to explain the delay made thereafter day by day. In other words, in showing

from demurrer to file a demurrer, literally, to stay, dwell, delay, from Old French demorer, from Latin demorari to delay] :

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debt b in the civil law of Louisiana : a delay in performing under a contract that is recognized by the

To put off to postpone to a future time to delay the execution of to delay to withhold

Of or pertaining to delay esp designating a law passed as in a time of

the sentence for an interval of time, and operates in delay of execution, A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law 757,

Latin laxare to loosen, from laxus slack] 1 : undue delay in asserting a right or privilege compare statute of limitations

give seisin of lands to the king's grantee; on his delaying to do it, requiring him to show cause why he

to the archbishop of the province, against the ordinary, for delaying or refusing to do justice in some cause ecclesiastical, as

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