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Definition of Demurring
1. demur [v] - See also: demur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demurring
Literary usage of Demurring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, in Personal by William Tidd, Francis Joseph Troubat, Asa Israel Fish, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1856)
"(M)[A] The reason for demurring to evidence is, that the jury, if they please,
may refuse to find a special verdict, and then the facts never appear on the ..."
2. A Treatise on General Practice: Containing Rules and Suggestions for the by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1894)
"Risk in demurring to the evidence.—It is evident that a party who demurs to the
... The danger which the demurring party encounters makes it necessary to ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"... it should appear that the party demurring has an interest in having such other
party joined as a defendant.1 (e) Appeal from Judgment on Démarrer. ..."
4. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, William Frierson Cooper (1894)
"As the time for demurring alone runs from appearance, and that for answering,
pleading, or demurring, not demurring alone, from the service of the ..."
5. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"If jury, upon any view of facts, might have given verdict against party demurring
to evidence, court may also give judgment against him. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen (1894)
"It thus appears, then, that in many cases a party, though he has pleaded over
without demurring, may, nevertheless, afterwards avail himself of an ..."
7. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1904)
"And this brings us to the cardinal reason for demurring to M. Taine's neatly
rounded proposition. His appreciation of the speculative precursors of the ..."
8. Civil Procedure at Common Law by Alexander Martin (1899)
"317. Relaxation of Rule I. in respect to 1'leas. Sec. 318. Rule II. Against Pleading
and demurring to the same Matter. SEC. 312. The Vice of Duplicity. ..."
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