Hostilities - Law Dictionary Search Results
possession
v. Garrison, 896 S.W.2d 689 (1995)"] adverse possession : actual possession of another's real property that is open, hostile, exclusive, continuous, adverse to the claim of the owner, often under a claim of right or color of
Battery
touching or laying hold, however trifling, of another's person or clothes, in an angry, revengeful, rude, insolent, or hostile manner. It is a good defence to prove that the alleged battery happened by misadventure, or that it
Oppugnant
Tending to awaken hostility hostile opposing warring
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Inimicality
The state or quality of being inimical or hostile hostility unfriendliness
witness
the witness is called [sought to have his witness declared an adverse witness subject to impeachment] called also hostile witness see also leading question at question alibi witness : a witness upon whom a criminal defendant relies
Demurrage
the unlawful acts of the custom-house officers. Demurrage is not, however, claimable for a delay occasioned by the hostile detention of the ship, or the hostile occupation of the intended port; nor is it claimable for any
Munitions of war
rr. 106-108. As to supplying such to foreign states at peace with this country, for the purpose of hostilities between themselves, see 33 & 34 Vict. c. 90. As to the establishment of a Ministry of Munitions
Droits of admiralty
the most valuable is the right to the property of an enemy seized on the breaking out of hostilities. In the arrangement of the Civil List during the recent reigns, it was settled that whatever droits of
Declaration of war
formal announcement by one nation of an intention to treat another nation as an enemy and to commence hostilities, agreed to be necessary by the Hague Convention, 1907. In modern times the future belligerents, generally, are in
Contraband
contraband, they have sometimes been specified in treaties or conventions. But this classification is not always respected during hostilities. See DECLARATION OF LONDON. Where goods which would be contraband if carried to enemy port are being carried
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