Hostilize - 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
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
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
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Inimicality
The state or quality of being inimical or hostile hostility unfriendliness
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
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
Colony
portions of the British dominions, and whose protection they have a right to demand, for the resistance of hostile aggression, and the peaceful possession of their territory. As a general rule an Act of Parliament must name
Coke, Sir Edward
committed to the Tower by Charles I., for his support of the Petition of right. Coke was bitterly hostile to the injunction of equity. The controversy between Coke and Lord Ellesmere, the Chancellor, was acute. James I.
Civil defence
to any person, property, place or thing in India or any part of the territory thereof against any hostile attack, whether from air, land, sea or other places, or, for depriving any such attack of the whole
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