(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
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an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact
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(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…
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Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) negligence of two of more persons acting independently; the plaintiff may sue both together or separately
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An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heath…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclama…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.a verdict entered by the court in a jury trial without consideration by the jury; "there cannot be a directed verdict of guilty in a c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ordinary, verdict, declaring, party, prevails.A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
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