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1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. xiii. 542 To Trauerse an Enditement..is to take issue vpon the chiefe matter therof, which is none other..then..to deny the point of the Enditement.

1677 J. Logan Analogia Honorum ii. ii. 16/2 If the Plaintiff, as demanded, take Issue, the Issue shall not be tryed by the Jury, but by the Records of Parliament.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Protestation To transverse an Indictment, is to take Issue upon the chief Matter, and to contradict or deny some Point of it.

1706 R. Gardiner Doctr. of Demurrers 91 The King hath such a Prerogative as that he may wave his Demurrer, and take Issue, or wave his Issue and Demur upon the Plea.

1797 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) The use of a Protestation in pleading seems to be this, viz. When one party alleges or pleads several matters, and the other party can only offer, or take issue on one of them, he protests against the others.

1830 Law Jrnl. 8 174/2 If the plaintiff disputed that fact, he was bound to take issue upon it.

1894 Pacific Reporter 44 32/1 Reese Bros. served notice upon the garnishee that they would take issue upon his answer.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 833/2 In this pleading the plaintiff usually took issue upon the statements in the defence.

1996 Sc. Criminal Case Rep. (Lexis) 503 The advocate-depute..intimated that in the present case he did not wish to take issue on the matter of competency and was prepared to proceed upon the basis that the bill was competent.

1623 T. Powell Wheresoeuer you see Mee 17 Her fingers ends itcht to be telling out of her part, and to take issue vpon his promise of the vnion, which she performed with much dexterity.

1792 Addr. from Gen. Comm. Rom. Catholics 1 We are compelled, however reluctantly, to meet the discussion, and to take issue with our detractors.

1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 331 The enemies of the Parliament..rarely choose to take issue on the great points of the question.

1886 Science 30 Apr. 404/1 We wish to take issue with the author upon the principle laid down in the introduction.

1914 Proc. New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Assoc. 1 105 I am going to take issue on the question that our work is ever going to cost any less.

1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 264/2 Yet Papini..does not hesitate himself to take issue with the gospels in order to feed his un-Christly hatred of the Israelites!

1966 Los Angeles Times 28 Dec. ii. 1/1 The President might take issue if he disagrees with anything stated as a fact [in the book].

2010 Guardian 17 Feb. 31/3 Where I take issue with Ashley is her delightful proposal to turn our towns and cities into replicas of Soviet-era gloomscapes.