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Hostile Witness

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

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

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

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

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

to treat another nation as an enemy and to commence hostilities, agreed to be necessary by the Hague Convention, 1907. In

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

was without ] 3 a : an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their

the laws of war 2 : inclined to or exhibiting hostility or a combative temperament n : a belligerent nation, state,

thither, and there adhere to our enemies for purposes of hostility, he may be dealt with as a traitor, Fost. 115.

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