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Definition of Nonuse
1. failure to use [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonuse
Literary usage of Nonuse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Prior Appropriation of Water by Samuel Charles Wiel (1911)
"... complained of is making an excessive use during the complaining owner's nonuse,
the latter is entitled to either nominal damages,3 or to an injunction. ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"The learned judge said: "Simple nonuse is one thing. Standing alone, nonuse is
no efficient reason for withholding injunction. There are many reasons for ..."
3. Water Use Conflicts in the West: Implications of Reforming the Bureau of by Marca Weinberg (1997)
"Estimates of nonuse values tend to be significantly larger, and more controversial,
than estimates of use values. In contrast to use values, ..."
4. Highway Safety: Motorcycle Helmet Laws Save Lives and Reduce Costs to Society (1993)
"... Helmet nonuse Increases the Societal Cost of Motorcycle Accidents nonuse of
Helmets Increases the Cost of Caring for Injured Riders The additional ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1896)
"Mere nonuse, for any length of time, of an easement created by grant, ... In order
to extinguish it by nonuse there must be some conduct on the part of the ..."
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