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(law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings
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demurrer
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings [syn: demur , demurral ] (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demurrer \De*mur"rer\, n. One who demurs. (Law) A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A demurrer is a pleading in a lawsuit that objects to or challenges a pleading filed by an opposing party . The word demur means "to object"; a demurrer is the document that makes the objection. Lawyers informally define a demurrer as a defendant saying, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legal pleading, 1530s, from Anglo-French demurrer , Old French demorer "to delay, retard" (see demur ).
Usage examples of demurrer.
It seemeth me, however, that Master Spikeman hath no necessity to join issue with thee on the facts, and that a bare demurrer were all-sufficient to throw thee out of court.
Santa Teresa County Superior Court, all the demurrers, answers, and cross-complaints.
According to the inventory, the first box should have contained copies of police reports, transcripts from the murder trial, the complaint Lonnie'd filed in the civil action in the Santa Teresa County Superior Court, all the demurrers, answers, and cross-complaints.
Taking one thing with another, and allowing four months on the average for each necessary round trip to the West Indies to take evidence on commission, and taking into account demurrers and rebuttals and sur-rebuttals, the Lord Chancellor thinks that it will be thirty-seven years before any case reaches the House of Lords, and he went on to say, cackling into his soup, that our interest in the case will be greatly diminished by then.
Here plaintiff demurs, the Village joining in his demurrer, offering in exhibit similar structures of which Cyclone Seven is one of a series occupying sites elsewhere in the land, wherein among the four and on only one occasion a similar event occurred at a Long island, New York, site in the form of a boy similarly entrapped and provoking a similar outcry until a proffered ten dollar bill brought him forth little the worse.