Impedance - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: impedanceImpede
To hinder to stop in progress to obstruct as to impede the advance of troops...
Impedible
Capable of being impeded or hindered...
dynamite charge
dynamite charge [probably from the notion of exploding the metaphorical blockage impeding a decision by a deadlocked jury] : allen charge ...
estop
estop es·topped es·top·ping [Anglo-French estop(p)er, literally, to stop up, from Middle French estouper, ultimately from Latin stuppa hemp fiber (used for plugging holes)] : to impede or bar by estoppel ...
interfere
interfere -fered -fer·ing 1 : to act in a way that impedes or obstructs others 2 : to enter into the concerns of others ...
intervention
intervention : the act or an instance of intervening ;specif : the act or procedure by which a third party becomes a party to a pending proceeding between other parties in order to protect his or her own interest in the subject matter of the suit compare impleader, interpleader, joinder NOTE: Intervention developed as a procedure in equity courts. There is some overlap between joinder and intervention because of the merger of law and equity in federal practice. intervention of right : intervention allowed in federal civil procedure when a statute grants an absolute right to intervene or when the applicant claims an interest in the subject of the proceeding that the applicant may be impeded from protecting by the disposition of the proceeding NOTE: Intervention of right will not be granted if the court considers that the applicant's interest is already adequately represented. permissive intervention : intervention allowed in federal civil procedure when a statute grants a condi...
traverse
traverse : a denial of a matter of fact alleged in the opposing party's pleadings ;also : a pleading in which such a denial is made [trə-vərs, tra-vərs] vt [Anglo-French traverser, literally, to lay across, bar, impede, from Old French, from Late Latin transversare to cross, from Latin transversus lying across] : to deny (as an allegation of fact or an indictment) in a legal proceeding ...
Boggle
To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened or in doubt or impeded by unforeseen difficulties to take alarm to exhibit hesitancy and indecision...
Bottleneck
a location or situation in which otherwise rapid progress is impeded...
Cheval de frise
A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron pointed spikes or spears five or six feet long used to defend a passage stop a breach or impede the advance of cavalry etc...
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