Sentence example with the word 'demurrer'

demurrer

answer, challenge, demur, dissident, indignation meeting, objector, pleadings, qualm, remonstrance, scruple, special pleading

Definition n. (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings

Last update: October 4, 2015


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After his release Prynne further expressed his feelings in defence of advowsons and patrons, an attack on the Quakers (1655), and in a pamphlet against the admission of the Jews to England (A Short Demurrer to the Jews) issued in 1656.   [Please select]

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But to this new order there was an instant demurrer.   [Please select]

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And he is about to annex other qualities in turn to this core of subjectivity, when Hylas enters a general demurrer: "Hold, Philonous, I now see what it was deluded me all this time."   [Please select]

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Injunction proceedings reached the Supreme Court of the United States on a demurrer, and in February, 1908, the court declared that the Sherman Anti-Trust Law forbade interstate boycotts.   [Please select]

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