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Defence struck off or defence struck out

Defence struck off or defence struck out, The phrase 'defence struck off' or 'defence struck out' is not unknown in the sphere of law. Indeed it finds a place on Order XI, Rule 21 of the Code of Civil Procedure: Where any party fails to comply with any order to answer interrogatories, or for discovery of inspection of documents, he shall, if a plaintiff, be liable to have his suit dismissed for want of prosecution, and, if a defendant, to have his defences, if any, struck out, and to be placed in the same position as if he had not defended, and the party interrogating or seeking discovery or inspection may apply to the Court for an order to that effect, and an order may be made accordingly, Paradise Industrial Corpn. v. M/s. Kiln Plastics Products, (1976) 1 SCC 91: AIR 1976 SC 309: (1976) 2 SCR 32. (CPC, O. 11, R. 21)...

struck jury

struck jury 1 : a jury that is selected from a venire of usually forty people from which potential jurors are struck by attorneys for each side alternately until a specified number (as twelve) of jurors are left 2 : special jury ...

struck

struck past and past part of strike adj : being the object of or subjected to a labor strike [a employer] ...

Horrify

To cause to feel horror to strike or impress with horror as the sight horrified the beholders...

strike

strike struck struck also: strick·en strik·ing vi 1 : to remove or delete something 2 : to stop work in order to force an employer to comply with demands vt 1 : to remove or delete from a legal document and esp. from the record of a trial [it struck that part of [the] injunction "National Law Journal"] 2 : to remove (a prospective juror) from a venire 3 : to engage in a strike against (an employer) n 1 : the removal of a potential juror from a venire compare challenge 2 : a concerted work stoppage, interruption, or slowdown by a body of workers to enforce compliance with demands made on an employer see also rent strike Labor Management Relations Act in the Important Laws section compare job action economic strike : a strike that is brought against an employer because of a dispute regarding economic benefits or conditions (as wages) NOTE: Workers engaged in an economic strike can legally be replaced permanently. No-strike clauses in collective bargaining agreements ...

Consternation

Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties and incapacitates for reflection terror combined with amazement dismay...

Die

To pass from an animate to a lifeless state to cease to live to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions to become dead to expire to perish said of animals and vegetables often with of by with from and rarely for before the cause or occasion of death as to die of disease or hardships to die by fire or the sword to die with horror at the thought...

Direness

Terribleness horror woefulness...

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