单词 | defendent party |
释义 | > as lemmasdefendent party b. Law. That faces or defends against a charge or accusation in a legal proceeding; = defendant adj. 2. Chiefly in defendent party. Now rare. ΚΠ 1662 E. Lake tr. W. Camden in Memoranda 4 These Courts could not require the Oath ex officio from the defendent party, when as no man is bound to accuse himself. 1805 A. Burnaby Occas. Serm. & Charges xiii. 257 Twelve persons..selected and chosen for the most part from that order and class of people, to which the defendent party belongs. 1900 Lancaster Law Rev. 17 213/2 [Your orator prays] that said defendent council be directed to pay to him sick benefits. 1949 Dixon (Illinois) Evening Tel. 13 July 7/1 Holbrook..is the defendent party to a complaint action which is due for a hearing before Police Magistrate Albert Kennedy. 1986 Walworth County (Wisconsin) Week 28 Jan. 18/6 In Wisconsin there is a ‘deep pockets’ law, which allows plaintiffs in a multi-party suit to obtain the greatest amount of damages from a defendent party that has the least negligence but the largest assets. < as lemmas |
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