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Definition of Instituting
1. institute [v] - See also: institute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instituting
Literary usage of Instituting
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 (1905)
"We find in that volume (page 256): "It may be regarded as settled that a court
of equity has jurisdiction to en- Join a resident creditor from instituting ..."
2. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"SECTION I. Mode of instituting Railway Projects. 1 Subscribers' associations in
England. 2. Subscribers bound by subsequent charter. ..."
3. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1827)
"... for instituting a London Academy : in a Letter addressed to the Right ...
for instituting what is called a LONDON ACADEMY, that is an UNIVERSITY in the ..."
4. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Only Damages for "Seizure," Not for instituting Bankruptcy Proceedings.—Thus,
also, only damages for the seizure of the property are allowable, ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1835)
"... refusing Assent to Ihe Proposition for instituting large Unions of Parishes,
and the erection of Central Workhouses, particularly in the neighbourhood ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"It may be any motive other than that of simply instituting a prosecution for the
purpose of bringing a person to justice.1 I In a legal sense, any unlawful ..."
7. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1898)
"... by Jesus Christ in instituting the sacrament of the supper, as affirmed in
two prize essays that were widely circulated by the temperance societies of ..."
8. A Treatise on the Law of Malicious Prosecution, False Imprisonment, and the by Martin L. Newell (1892)
"A. Maliciously instituting the prosecution: Another point to be proved in this
action is the defendant's malice in instituting the proceedings. ..."