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One who importunes an importuner...
importune
importune -tuned -tun·ing vt : to press or urge with troublesome persistence [who solicits, requests, commands, s or intentionally aids another person to engage in conduct which constitutes an offense "General Statutes of Connecticut"] vi : to beg, urge, or press another persistently or troublesomely compare coerce, solicit ...
Importunity
The quality of being importunate pressing or pertinacious solicitation urgent request incessant or frequent application troublesome pertinacity...
Importunate
Troublesomely urgent unreasonably solicitous overpressing in request or demand urgent teasing as an importunate petitioner curiosity...
Importuner
One who importunes...
Importunacy
The quality of being importunate importunateness...
Importunely
In an importune manner...
At the instance of
At the instance of, according to the plain English language, the ordinary meaning of the phrase 'at the instance of in the collocation of words 'No prosecution shall be instituted............. except at the instance of' must, in the context in which it appears mean 'at the behest of, or at the solicitation of.' The word 'instance' as a verb means 'to urge, entreat urgently, importune.' The meaning of the phrase 'at the instance of' as given in Random House Dictionary of the English Language at p. 690 is: 'at the urging or suggestion of 'Instance' does not imply the same degree of obligation to obey as does 'command'. That is also the legal sense in which the phrase 'at the instance of s. 50 of the Act has been understood. It is clear upon the terms of s. 50 that it nowhere requires that the authorization should be by a notification published in the Official Gazette, State of Karnataka v. Adimusthy, (1983) 3 SCC 268: AIR 1983 SC 822 (823). (Electricity Act, 1910, s. 50)...
Instance
Instance, the words 'instance' as a verb means 'tourge, entreat urgently, importune.' The mean-ing of the phrase 'at the instance of' as given in Random House Dictionary of the English Language at p. 690 is: at the urging or suggestion of 'Instance' does not imply the same degree of obligation to obey as does 'command', State of Karnataka v. Adimusthy, AIR 1983 SC 822 (823): (1983) 3 SCC 268. [Electricity Act (9 of 1910), s. 50 (now Electricity Act, 2003)]...
Importune
Inopportune unseasonable...
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