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To demand to insist upon having to claim as by right and authority to exact as to require the surrender of property...
Blue Hen State
The State of Delaware a popular sobriquet It is said though the story lacks proof to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain named Caldwell that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen whence Blue Hens Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware...
right
right [Old English riht, from riht righteous] 1 a : qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval b : something that is morally just [able to distinguish from wrong] 2 : something to which one has a just claim: as a : a power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment or possession [the of liberty] [that all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable s "Declaration of Independence"] see also natural right b : a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law [one's constitutional s] c : a legally enforceable claim against another that the other will do or will not do a given act [the defendant may be under a legal duty…to exercise reasonable care for the plaintiff's safety, so that the plaintiff has a corresponding legal to insist on that care "W. L. Prosser and W. P. K...
instance
instance [French, from Late Latin instantia, from Latin, the fact of being present or impending, vehemence in speech, urgency, from instant- instans insistent, pressing, from present participle of instare to be pressing, stand upon] : the institution or prosecution of a lawsuit [a court of first ] ...
Westoxication
Westoxication, toxication caused by western culture and values. 'Westoxicated sophistication, which he acquired in England as a student, was anathema to the community in whose name he organized, campaigned and bitterly insisted to the end on the formation of Pakistan.' [M.A. Jinnah - The Divisive Genius Who Engineered India's Vivisection in Legally Speaking, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 3; Also See Off the Bench, p. 177]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
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