Opponent - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: opponentIgnoratio elenchi
Ignoratio elenchi, an overlooking of the adversary's counterposition in an argument.Means ignorance of the conclusion to be proved. An advocate's misunderstanding of an opponent's position, manifested by an argument that fails to address the opponent's point; the overlooking of an opponent's counter argument, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p. 750....
Cross buttock
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent places his left leg across both legs of his opponent and pulls him forward over his hip hence an unexpected defeat or repulse...
Collusive proceeding and fraudulent proceeding
Collusive proceeding and fraudulent proceeding, there is a fundamental distinction between a proceeding which is collusive and one which is fraudulent. When a proceeding is alleged to be fraudulent, what is meant is that the claim made therein is untrue, but that the claimant has managed to obtain the verdict of the court in his favour and against his opponent by practising fraud on the court. Such a proceeding is started with a view to injure the opponent, and there can be no question of its having been initiated as the result of an understanding between the parties. While in collusive proceedings the combat is a mere sham, in a fraudulent suit it is real and earnest, Nagubai Ammal v. B. Shama Rao, (1956) SCR 451: AIR 1956 SC 593 (599). [Transfer of Property Act (4 of 1882), s. 52]...
Fraudulent proceeding
Fraudulent proceeding, When a proceeding is alleged to be fraudulent, what is meant is that the claim made therein is untrue, but that the claimant had managed, to obtain the verdict of the court in his favour and against his opponent by practicing fraud on the Court. Such a proceeding is started with a view to injure the opponent and there can no question of its having been initiated as the result of an understanding between the parties, Nagubai Ammal v. B. Shama Rao, AIR 1956 SC 593 (599). [Transfer of Property Act, 1882, s. 52]...
evasive
evasive : tending or intending to evade NOTE: Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(a)(3), an evasive or incomplete answer to an interrogatory or to a question at a deposition is treated as a failure to answer and may be subject to an opponent's motion to compel an answer. eva·sive·ly adv eva·sive·ness n ...
verdict
verdict [alteration (partly conformed to Medieval Latin veredictum) of Anglo-French veirdit statement, finding, verdict, from Old French veir true (from Latin verus) + dit saying, from Latin dictum] 1 : the usually unanimous finding or decision of a jury on one or more matters (as counts of an indictment or complaint) submitted to it in trial that ordinarily in civil actions is for the plaintiff or for the defendant and in criminal actions is guilty or not guilty compare judgment compromise verdict : a verdict produced not by sincere unanimous agreement on guilt or liability but by an improper surrender of individual convictions ;specif : an impermissible verdict by a jury that is unable to agree on liability and so compromises on an award of damages that is less than what it should be if the plaintiff has a right of recovery free from any doubts di·rect·ed verdict 1 : a verdict granted by the court when the party with the burden of proof has failed to present sufficie...
Capitalize on
To turn an opportunity to ones advantage to take advantage of a situation to profit from as to capitalize on an opponents mistakes...
Contestant
One who contests an opponent a litigant a disputant one who claims that which has been awarded to another...
Croquet
In the game of croquet to drive away an opponents ball after putting ones own in contact with it by striking ones own ball with the mallet...
Encounterer
One who encounters an opponent an antagonist...
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