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Definition of Quash
1. Verb. Put down by force or intimidation. "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
Generic synonyms: Crush, Oppress, Suppress
Derivative terms: Repression, Repression, Repressive, Subduer
2. Verb. Declare invalid. "Void a plea"
Generic synonyms: Cancel, Strike Down
Specialized synonyms: Break, Stet
Derivative terms: Annulment, Invalidation, Invalidator, Nullification, Nullification, Nullifier, Nullifier, Void, Voidable, Voider
Antonyms: Validate
Definition of Quash
1. n. Same as Squash.
2. v. t. To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.
3. v. t. To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.
4. v. i. To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
Definition of Quash
1. Verb. To defeat forcibly. ¹
2. Verb. (relating to law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quash
1. to suppress completely [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quash
Literary usage of Quash
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 (1912)
"Exceptions pendente lite were filed to the overruling of the motion to quash,
and error has been assigned in this court upon these exceptions. ..."
2. Handbook of Criminal Procedure by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1918)
"Motion to quash. 127-12& The Arraignment and Pleas. 129. Confession—Plea of
Guilty—Nolo Contenders. • 130. Plea to the Jurisdiction. 131. Plea in Abatement. ..."
3. Commentaries on the Law of Criminal Procedure: Or, Pleading, Evidence, and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1872)
"Moor, W. Kel. to quash cannot be made after plea 108; Rex v. Wynn, 2 East, 226.
In pleaded, I think if it is made to appear Rex v. Frith, 1 Leach, 4th ed. ..."
4. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"Do you want to put me to the necessity of filing another motion to quash that
count ? Mr. STANBERY. But you have on that subject in the other case. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Legal Remedies of Mandamus and Prohibition, Habeas Corpus by Horace Gay Wood (1880)
"The writ should be made returnable at a general term, in the district where the
case arose.8 Motion to quash or supersede tlie writ. ..."
6. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1901)
"If a summons is fatally defective, the defect may reach the defendant by motion
to quash or he may have a judgment by default set aside, and an appearance ..."
7. A Digest of the Law of Criminal Procedure in Indictable Offences by James Fitzjames Stephen, Herbert Stephen (1883)
"A DEFENDANT, when put to answer to an indictment, may either Move to quash the
indictment, or Demur to the indictment, or ' Plead to the indictment; and, ..."
8. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"Motions to quash an indictment. A motion to quash an indictment is usually ...
and must clearly be decided in favor of the defendant.2 "On motions to quash, ..."
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