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Overturn

To turn or throw from a basis foundation or position to overset as to overturn a carriage or a building...

Overturnable

Capable of being or liable to be overturned or subverted...

conviction 1 : the act or process of convicting ;also : the final judgment entered after a finding of guilt [a prior of murder] [would not overturn the ] compare acquittal NOTE: Jurisdictions differ as to what constitutes conviction for various statutes (as habitual offender statutes). Conviction is rarely applied to civil cases. 2 : guilt [the judge will enter a judgment of "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] ...

set aside

set aside 1 : to disagree with and overturn (a decision or act of a lower tribunal) upon review : overrule vacate [set aside the decree] 2 : to deprive of legal effect or force : annul void [may set aside the contract] ...

Capsize

To upset or overturn as a vessel or other body...

Overthrow

To throw over to overturn to upset to turn upside down...

Overtilt

To tilt over to overturn...

Five-mile Act

Five-mile Act, 35 Eliz. c. 2,whereby popish recusants, convicted for not going to church, were compelled to repair to their usual place of abode, and not to remove above five miles from thence, repealed (after long disuse) by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 102. Also, 17 Car. 2, c. 2, whereby clergy who refused to take the oath of non-resistance imposed by the Act on all who had not subscribed the Act of Uniformity, were forbidden to come within five miles of a corporate town, and non-conformists were forbidden to teach in any school under heavy penalties; repealed by 52 Geo. 3, c. 155, s. 1.A 1665 Act prohibiting Puritan minister from teach-ing or coming within fix miles any town where they had held of the if they refused to pledges that they would not seek to overturn the church of England. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....

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