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dishonor

or accept commercial paper (as a check) when it is presented see also wrongful dishonor vt : to refuse to pay or accept [a bank ing the checks for insufficient funds]

disallow

to deny the truth, force, or validity of [ed the deduction] [ a bankruptcy claim] 2 : to refuse to allow [ payment of benefits] dis·al·low·ance n

deny

[a party…shall admit or the averments "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 8(b)"] compare avoid 2 : to refuse to grant [denied the motion for a new trial]

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conscience

conscience : exempting persons whose religious beliefs forbid compliance [ laws, which allow physicians…to refuse to participate in abortions "W. J. Curran"]

Gehenna

on this account was afterward regarded as a place of abomination and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia In the New Testament

Solicitor

a practising solicitor must take out an annual certificate (see ss. 36 to 43). The Lw Society may refuse to renew the certificate of a solicitor who is an undischarged bankrupt (see s. 38). No solicitor may

Substituted executor

in the place of another executor, upon the happening of a certain event, e.g., if the latter should refuse the office

Garbage

Offal as the bowels of an animal or fish refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen hence anything worthless disgusting or loathsome

Snow

s. 26 of the (English) Highways Act, 1835: Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways.' Snow is included in the 'street refuse' which London sanitary authorities must, as far as reasonably practicable, remove from the street, by s. 86 of

Shude

The husks and other refuse of rice mills used to adulterate oil cake or linseed cake

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