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Hostilize

To make hostile to cause to become an enemy

Hostile attack

Hostile attack, means any attack by any person or body of

Hostile Witness

Hostile Witness, a witness who so conducts himself under examination-in-chief that

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Adverse possession

C., Carson's R. P. St., and LIMITATION OF ACTIONS. Means hostile possession, that is, a possession which is expressly in denial

possession

: actual possession of another's real property that is open, hostile, exclusive, continuous, adverse to the claim of the owner, often

witness

witness declared an adverse witness subject to impeachment] called also hostile witness see also leading question at question alibi witness :

Inimicality

The state or quality of being inimical or hostile hostility unfriendliness

Oppugnant

Tending to awaken hostility hostile opposing warring

Battery

person or clothes, in an angry, revengeful, rude, insolent, or hostile manner. It is a good defence to prove that the

Demurrage

is not, however, claimable for a delay occasioned by the hostile detention of the ship, or the hostile occupation of the

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