单词 | party defendant |
释义 | > as lemmasparty defendant 2. Law. Of a person, organization, etc.: that faces or defends against a legal claim, charge, or accusation; that is a defendant in a lawsuit (see sense A. 1). In early use also as postmodifier, esp. in party defendant. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [adjective] > vindicated > vindicatory > by argument defendantc1400 defending?1534 defensative1587 defensive1604 c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 248 (MED) Þo was commandede to alle þe shirreffes of Engeland to warne þe partiez defendandz. c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 127 (MED) Ȝif the merchaunt pleyntiff wylle prevyn after the lawe merchaunt, the tayle to be maad be his adversarie defendaunt..be yt receyved by two men at leste. a1556 R. Chancellor in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1598) I. 240 Then commeth an officer and arresteth the party defendant. 1645 A. Skeldie Pract. Persecutors 24 The weaker that the defendant party be, and the stronger that the assailing partie be. 1683 J. Keble Assistance to Justices of Peace 16 The Party Defendant entred with force into the Lands. 1710 S. Jenks Short Rev. Jansenius 3 Had the Propositions been acquitted at their Tryal, the Party defendant had certainly made Bonfires for the Victory of their beloved Book. 1782 B. N. Turner Candid Suggestions ii. 24 In the second instance, defendant man was severely censured for want of feeling. 1833 W. Jay Life J. Jay I. viii. 296 It would be difficult to make the United States a defendant party. 1896 Daily News 24 Nov. 5/7 Detailing my instructions to the defendant surgeon. 1936 Food & Drug Admin. U.S. Dept. Agric. (rev. ed.) 9 Each violative shipment appears in the pleadings as one or more counts against the defendant shipper. 1965 J. H. W. Verzijl Jurispr. World Court I. 317 More than once a defendant party has attempted to evade the jurisdiction of the Court. 2015 Mass. Lawyers Weekly (Nexis) 30 Apr. In depositions, defendant employees agreed that it was company protocol to replace any modified company parts. < as lemmas |
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