Demurrer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEMURRER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who demurs
• an objection
• One who demurs.
• 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 alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further.
• (law) a formal objection to an opponent\'s pleadings
• (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent\'s pleadings
• a defendant\'s answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
• any objection raised
• an objection granting the factual basis of an opponent's point but dismissing it as irrelevant or invalid
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that demurs
• pleading that admits an opponent\'s point but denies that it is a relevant or valid argument

Words related to DEMURRER

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Words that contain DEMURRER

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How to use DEMURRER in a sentence

• Again, a definitive argument cannot, as to the same portion of it, be at the same time both a definitive argument and one in the form and character of a demurrer.
• The man against whom the action is brought pleads a demurrer before the praetor, without there being any prejudice to a man on trial for his life.
• The man who brings the action demands a trial on the simple fact, the man against whom the action is brought says that a demurrer ought to be added.
• It seemeth me, however, that Master Spikeman hath no necessity to join issue with thee on the facts, and that a bare demurrer were all-sufficient to throw thee out of court.
• While Petit-Claud was busy securing the household property of his clients, he gained the day at Poitiers on the point of law on which the demurrer and appeals were based.
• A demurrer was filed and argued in July, 1840, at the Utica term of the Supreme Court.
• If he can escape the charge of deliberate falsehood, it is only, on demurrer, by the plea of a contemptible quibble.
• To this part of modern scientific teaching the earlier position of this essay suggests a demurrer.
• The judges gave me one hundred and sixty pounds damages, but, as I lost the demurrer with costs, the balance will doubtless be small.

Similar words containing MURR without suffix er and without prefix de

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