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Definition of Nonsuits
1. nonsuit [v] - See also: nonsuit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonsuits
Literary usage of Nonsuits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1891)
"nonsuits are voluntary when granted with the plaintiff's consent.1 2. ...
nonsuits are involuntary when granted against the plaintiff's will. ..."
2. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1896)
"... Evidence—(a) nonsuits—aa. IN GENERAL—At Common Law.—The right of the trial
court to nonsuit a plaintiff on motion of the defendant for failure of proof ..."
3. A Selection of Cases on Trial Practice: At Common Law and Under Modern Statutes by Edward Wilcox Hinton (1915)
"nonsuits. (a) When permitted or directed. 2 Lilly Reg. 292-3. A. There is a
difference between a nonsuit and a ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Marital Rights in Texas: Including Marriage by Ocie Speer (1916)
"Dismissals and nonsuits. £ 491. Declarations and admissions. § 484. Variance.
§ 492. Documentary evidence. § 485. Matters in issue. § 493. ..."
5. The Law of Estoppel by Lancelot Feilding Everest, Edmund Strode (1884)
"nonsuits did not, generally speaking, at common law, raise an estoppel in a
subsequent suit: for after nonsuit the record was null (o). ..."
6. Studies in American Jurisprudence by Theodore Frelinghuysen Cornell Demarest (1906)
"V. nonsuits, OLD AND NEW. The ancient common-law Declaration, corresponding to
the New York Complaint, in a civil action, after the title, date, venue, ..."
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