demurrer

How To Use demurrer In A Sentence

• I know that the rules are now somewhat laxer than they used to be and you get confused, but if it was not clear whether or not judgment had been entered, then it seemed to me this could only be on a demurrer basis.
• I do not know whether this is connected but I gave an opinion on a matter, I think, that went on demurrer to the Court…
• It would not be an order that would be made as on demurrer, but would be to stay.
• Grant leave to the defendant to withdraw its demurrer filed 23 June 2004, and the same is now withdrawn;
• [17] Of these renderings the subjoined may be taken as favorable specimens: -- "Breve originale, original sinne; capias, a catch to a sad tune; alias capias, another to the same (sad tune); habeas corpus, a trooper; capias ad satisfaciend., a hangman: latitat, bo-peep; nisi prius, first come first served; demurrer, hum and haw; scandal. magnat., down with the Lords. A Book About Lawyers
• The plaintiff issued a special demurrer to that plea, alleging it furnished no legal justification or excuse for the defendant's action.
• She repeated her demurrer: "Mr. Jefferson is unavailable at the present instant. FATAL FLAW
• Nevertheless, after all qualifications or demurrers have been entered, Hobsbawm's elegy to the political tradition to which he dedicated his life has a dignity and passion that must command anyone's respect.
• The barbarous system of "pleadings" was then in full vogue, though soon to be weeded out even in its parent England, and the law to be made a trial of facts instead of traverses, demurrers, avoidances, rebutters and surrebutters, churned out of the skim milk of words. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times