Crossword clues for waived
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waive \Waive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived; p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.] [OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf. Vibrate, Waif.] [Written also wave.]
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To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all.
--Chaucer.We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
--Barrow. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
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(Law)
To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
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(O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon.
--Burrill.Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.
--Burrill.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: waive)
Usage examples of "waived".
Sixth Amendment withholds from the federal courts, in all criminal proceedings, the power to deprive an accused of his life or liberty unless he has waived, or waives, the assistance of counsel.
The right may be waived by a defendant whose education qualifies him to make an intelligent choice.
A sentence imposed upon a plea of guilty is invalid if such plea was entered through deception or coercion of the prosecuting attorney, or in reliance upon erroneous advice given by a lawyer in the employ of the Government, where the defendant did not have the assistance of counsel and had not understandingly waived the right to such assistance.
Such foreign corporation is viewed as having waived its constitutional right to be secure against imposition of conditions which amount to a taking of property without due process of law.
Augustus ever really looked up to me before he learned that the assessment on Eryx Keep had been waived because he was my relative.
Territory, I waived this objection, and concluded to support the measure.
Gillian, recollecting the particles of glass he had found on the floor of 310, waived cross-examination.
Larvey, if you ever had any right to suppress, you waived it by not making your motion at the beginning of the of the deposition.
That is another reason why, acting for you, I have waived the preliminary.
He came aboard at the last possible minute, so they waived his audition.
There may even be a provision to get the waiting period waived, or we could drive down to Virginia, pick one up there.
At the beginning of the trial, Barney waived his opening statement, reserving it for the start of his defense.
Froebel stepped in and proved himself a law-breaker, just as Ben Lindsey was when he inaugurated the juvenile court and waived the entire established legal procedure, even to the omission of swearing his witnesses, and believed in the little truant even though he lied.
Linda Kasabian waived extradition proceedings and was flown back to Los Angeles that same day.
Krenwinkel waived further proceedings and asked to be returned to California immediately.