Fight - Law Dictionary Search Results
Waif or Waift, Weif or Weft
one waives the claim. (2) Goods stolen and waived (bona) or thrown away by the thief in his fight (bona waviata), for fear of being apprehended. These are given to the sovereign by the law, as a
Overbreed
To breed to excess as the bulls were so huge and overbred no matador wanted to fight them
Pugnacity
Inclination or readiness to fight quarrelsomeness
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Dangerous, and not kept under proper control
and applied, permitted a finding that a dog was dangerous and not under proper control when only a fight between dogs took place and no person or the animal was endangered or injured, Briscoe v. Shattock (D.C.),
outfight
to exceed in fighting fight more competently as He outfought his challengers the boxer outfought his opponent for eight rounds but lost
Discomfit
To scatter in fight to put to rout to defeat
Noncombatant
with an army or within the lines of an army who does not make it his business to fight as any one of the medical officers and their assistants chaplains and others also any of the citizens
affray
affray [Middle French affrai effrai fright, disturbance, from affraier effreer to terrify] : a fight between two or more people in a public place that disturbs the peace
intervene
2 a : to come in or between by way of hindrance or modification [ to stop a fight] b : to become a party to a legal proceeding begun by others in order to protect an
proxy contest
or the control of corporate management accomplished through the solicitation of proxies from other shareholders called also proxy fight
- ‹ Prev
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- Next ›
- Last »
Try the research workspace - 7 days free