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Mora
Mora, a moor, marshland, a heath, fen land, barren and unprofitable ground, Co. Litt. 5 a. --Delay. Mere delay has no legal result where express or implied promptness could not have been exacted, but the onus or
Moratory
Of or pertaining to delay esp designating a law passed as in a time of financial panic to postpone or delay for a
Defer
To put off to postpone to a future time to delay the execution of to delay to withhold
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agreement esp. with regard to payment of the debt b in the civil law of Louisiana : a delay in performing under a contract that is recognized by the other party NOTE: A party whose performance under
demurrer
demurrer [Anglo-French, from demurrer to file a demurrer, literally, to stay, dwell, delay, from Old French demorer, from Latin demorari to delay] : a plea in response to an allegation (as
laches
negligence, from Old French lasche lax, ultimately from Latin laxare to loosen, from laxus slack] 1 : undue delay in asserting a right or privilege compare statute of limitations 2 a : a doctrine permitting dismissal of
Reprieve
to keep back, and signifies the withdrawing of the sentence for an interval of time, and operates in delay of execution, A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law 757, 2nd Edn., 1826. Means temporary postponement of the
Causam nobis significes quare
who was by the king's writ demanded to give seisin of lands to the king's grantee; on his delaying to do it, requiring him to show cause why he so delayed the performance of his duty.
Double complaint, or Double quarrel
made known by a clerk or other person, to the archbishop of the province, against the ordinary, for delaying or refusing to do justice in some cause ecclesiastical, as to give sentence, or institute a clerk, as
Go slow
Go slow, Go-slow which is a picturesque description of deliberate delaying of production by workman pretending to be engaged in the factory is one of the most pernicious practices
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