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Definition of Overheld
1. overhold [v] - See also: overhold
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overheld
Literary usage of Overheld
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1897)
"Arkwright & Co., bankers at Wirksworth, to take up the bill, which they refused
to do, because it had been so long overheld. ..."
2. The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the (1827)
"Arkwright, Toplis & Co. bankers at Wirksworth, to take up the bill, which they
refused to do, because it had been so long overheld. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1828)
"Arkwright and Co., bankers at Wirksworth, to take up the bill, which they refused
to do, because it had been so long overheld. On the same day the plaintiff ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: During by Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1831)
"... 1827. overheld. These facts the plaintiff communicated to the defendant, by
letter, on the same day. On the 25th of March the defendant wrote to the ..."
5. Leading Cases in the Commercial Law of England and Scotland: Selected and by George Ross (1854)
"Arkwright and Co., bankers at Wirksworth, to take up the bill, which they refused
to do, because it had been so long overheld. On the same day the plaintiff ..."
6. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1856)
"Whenever the Tenant shall have overheld the Tenement ... for the Period of the
Tenure during any Part "f which he shall have so overheld the Possession, ..."
7. Irish Chancery Reports: Being a Series of Reports of Cases Argued and by Ireland High Court of Chancery, Ireland Rolls Court (1858)
"But the present case does not fall within those cases. Levis never was himself
in possession; he never overheld the possession; and it cannot be said that ..."
8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"... overheld. On the 25th of March the defendant wrote to the plaintiff, and said,
it was unnecessary for him (defendant) to enter on the subject of sup- ..."
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