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Definition of Demurrer
1. Noun. (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings.
Generic synonyms: Objection
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Demur, Demur, Demur, Demur
2. Noun. (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings.
3. Noun. A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him. "He gave evidence for the defense"
Generic synonyms: Due Process, Due Process Of Law
Group relationships: Trial
Specialized synonyms: Entrapment
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Antonyms: Prosecution
Derivative terms: Deny
Definition of Demurrer
1. n. One who demurs.
Definition of Demurrer
1. Noun. someone who demurs or objects ¹
2. Noun. (legal) A motion by a party to an action, for the immediate or summary 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Demurrer
1. one that demurs [n -S] - See also: demurs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demurrer
Literary usage of Demurrer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The court overruled the demurrer, and defendant appealed. WM Person, of Louisburg,
for appellant. JM Broughton, of Raleigh, for appellee. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, William Draper Lewis (1902)
"16, set forth the causes of his demurrer, or wherein he apprehends the deficiency
... (2) And upon either a general or such a special demurrer, the opposite ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"A judgment rendered upon demurrer la equally аз conclusive by way of estoppel
... A demurrer was interposed to several of the defenses, and among others to ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1849)
"If you are speaking of a bill, and say that the Defendant put in a demurrer, you
are understood to mean a demurrer to the whole; so if you are speaking of ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"It seems to follow as a necessary conclusion, that if he will confess the matter
of fact to be true, there he is to be admitted to his demurrer; and that if ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1821)
"'"0 himself of that right, he must pay the costs of the On the argu- demurrer on
the record. (J) incut of a demurrer, the Defendant it For the Information. ..."
7. The Codes and Statutes of California, as Amended and in Force at the Close by California, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy (1901)
"The only pleading on the part of the defendant is either a demurrer or a plea.
1003. demurrer or plea, when put in. Sec. 1003. Both the demurrer and plea ..."
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