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Definition of Overrules
1. overrule [v] - See also: overrule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overrules
Literary usage of Overrules
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 (1911)
"so far as the order overrules the demurrer It is affirmed, but in so far as it
sustains the demurrer it is reversed. (87 SC 250) BOWEN v. JOHNSTON. ..."
2. Federal Equity Practice: A Treatise on the Pleadings Used and Practice by Thomas Atkins Street (1909)
"Stronger Pleading overrules Weaker. The adoption of this order is fortified and
even made necessary by the existence of an important principle of pleading ..."
3. Sketch of the Official Life of John A. Andrew by Albert Gallatin Browne (1868)
"The Attorney General overrules the legal position of the Secretary of War.
— Correspondence with the President. — Correspondence with Thaddeus Stevens. ..."
4. Sketch of the Official Life of John A. Andrew by Albert Gallatin Browne (1868)
"The Attorney General overrules the legal position of the Secretary of War.
— Correspondence with the President. — Correspondence with Thaddeus Stevens. ..."
5. The Solicitors' Journal & Reporter (1871)
"... supersedes and overrules the opinion expressed by Vice- Chancellor Kindersley
in Re ... overrules ..."
6. The Life and Thoughts of John Foster by John Foster, William Wallace Everts (1849)
"If that judgment could lighten on me and on its subject! 11. God overrules all
events.—Sometimes in particular parts and instances we can see how human ..."
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