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Definition of Suspends
1. suspend [v] - See also: suspend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suspends
Literary usage of Suspends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by Sir John Barnard Byles, George Sharswood (1883)
"suspends the Remedy on a Simple Contract . ... The reception of a draft as
conditional payment suspends the plaintiff's original right of action till the ..."
2. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"An appeal itself suspends the decree of the inferior 3 Dallas, 87, court; ...
And in admiralty causes, an appeal wholly suspends the sentence, and the cause ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"The North Hiver Bank of New York suspends 15. Culmination of the financial panic
in London ; the old firm of Baring Brothers is only saved by voluntary aid ..."
4. Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law: And Various Points of English by William Forsyth (1869)
"... as to how far the proclamation of Martial Law suspends the functions of the
Council. 1757. To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade and ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"It is held in its position by a very delicate membrane which suspends it in its
place in front and behind. If it were not for this crystalline lens of the ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"... war does not deprive an individual in an enemy's country of his right or demand
entirely, but only suspends it during the continuance of hostilities, ..."
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