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Definition of Protects
1. protect [v] - See also: protect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protects
Literary usage of Protects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"According to Ihering, the law protects possession because the possessor appears
... The best answer to why the law protects adverse possession is to unite ..."
2. Elementary Law by William Callyhan Robinson (1882)
"The law protects health: (1) By giving to the party, whose health is ... The law
protects reputation: (1) By presuming that the character of every man is ..."
3. Elementary Law by William Callyhan Robinson (1882)
"The law protects health: (1) By giving to the party, whose health is ... The law
protects reputation: (1) By presuming that the character of every man is ..."
4. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"It simply protects it, as it protects all individual rights, and has the same
authority over it as over its inhabitants. The main principles governing the ..."
5. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"It simply protects it, as it protects all individual rights, and has the same
authority over it as over its inhabitants. The main principles governing the ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Agency: Including Not Only a Discussion of the by Floyd Russell Mechem (1914)
"Whom this lien protects.—In order to be entitled to a lien the attorney must
actually have been employed as an attorney in the cause," but the lien protects ..."
7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"CHAPTER LVII. The Turks of the House of Seljuk.—Their Revolt against Mahmud,
Conqueror of Hindostan. —Togrul subdues Persia, and protects the Caliphs. ..."