Provokement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Meek
Mild of temper not easily provoked or orritated patient under injuries not vain or haughty or resentful forbearing submissive
Niobe
The daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion king of Thebes Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana who slew them all Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone
Provocation
The act of provoking or causing vexation or anger
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Provocative
Serving or tending to provoke excite or stimulate exciting
Duel
see Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, tit. 'Duel.' It is a misdemeanour to challenge another to fight, or to provoke another to send a challenge, R. v. Phillips, (1805) 6 East 464; and fighting or promoting a duel
Resentful
Inclined to resent easily provoked to anger irritable
VerbarSalmis
A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce wine bread and condiments suited to provoke appetite
Assault
a corporal hurt to another, as by striking at him with or without a weapon. No words, how provoking so ever they be, will amount to an assault. Assault does not always necessarily imply a hitting or
Criminal libel
libel, libel may be a criminal offence as well as a civil wrong because of its tendency to provoke a breach of the place, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 28, para 5, p. 6
Irascible
Prone to anger easily provoked or inflamed to anger choleric irritable as an irascible man an irascible temper or mood
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