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Definition of Excepts
1. except [v] - See also: except
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excepts
Literary usage of Excepts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad Company, by its attorney, excepts and asks
that its exceptions be noted of record, which is accordingly done. ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Judgment of nonsuit, and plaintiff excepts and brings error. Reversed. E.
Cutts and AJ McDonald, both of Fitzgerald, for plaintiff In error. ..."
3. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"He excepts Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton from his censure, hut does not spare
John Taylor the Water-poet, ..."
4. The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the Supreme Court of by Francis Joseph Troubat, William Worthington Haly, Asa Israel Fish (1867)
"... and the parties must proceed on the writ of error.3 But where bail is defectively
entered and the defendant in error excepts, the writ must be non ..."
5. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"And if the clause excepts " Baths, Wash-houses, or PUBLIC PURPOSES," then "
Baths " (read with its context) means Public Baths, and even the ordinary fixed ..."
6. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1887)
"... for the plaintiff, the defendant excepts and prays that his exceptions may be
allowed." HK Braley, for the defendant. JW Cummings, for the plaintiff. ..."
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