41 Verbs to Use for the Word defendants

"The complainant was ascending the staircase of the club when he met the defendant, who, speaking of Lemberg, said Lemberg belonged to Russia.

I might, of course, dwell upon the impropriety of charging the defendant with criminal responsibility for the act of another free agent even if that agent be an animalbut I will leave that, if necessary, for the Court of Appeals.

"Miss Duryea," began Mr. Tutt, "do you know the defendant?" "Yes, sir; I do," she answered quietly.

Whereas classical rhetoric deals with speeches which might be delivered to convict or acquit a defendant in the law court, or to secure a certain action by the deliberative assembly, or to adorn an occasion, classical poetic deals with lyric, epic, and drama.

When the complainant has reproved the defendant for not doing her work well, she has replied, "Can't you let me alone to my work, and not worry my life out.

Haven't you any other charge on which you can try this defendant?" "No, Your Honor," answered O'Brien grimly.

At last they agreed to a compromise, and the verdict delivered was: "We are unanimously of opinion that the book in question is calculated to deprave public morals, but at the same time we entirely exonerate the defendants from any corrupt motives in publishing it.

2. The same day she ordered the defendant to wipe up some tracks in the hall.

Then leaning forward he asked significantly: "Did you see Crocedoro threaten the defendant with his razor?" "I object!"

A claimant in a civil case might either summon his debtor before a brehon, get a judgment, and seize the amount adjudged, or, by distraining first at his own risk, force the defendant either to pay or stop the seizure by submitting the matter in dispute to trial before a brehon, whom he then could choose.

Wherein did it help the defendant?

The first step in the trial proper is to inform the defendant of the nature of the crime with which he is charged.

At Walter Raleigh's trial, Coke, when argument and evidence failed him, insulted the defendant by applying to him the term thou.

But how are you going to get an American jury to choose between witnesses who are quite capable of swearing that the corpse killed the defendant.

This is an order to a sheriff or constable commanding him to notify the defendant to appear before the justice at a certain time and place to make answer to the plaintiff's demands.

Our sentence is passed, and it will stand, subject only to this, that we stay execution until a writ of error may be disposed of, the defendants giving the most unqualified and unreserved pledge that they will not allow another copy of the book to be sold.

The law in its wisdom did not permit the defendant to testify in his own behalf.

For instance, there was the Danish perjurer Louie, who swore he picked up the defendant at sea when the Bella went down.

In fact, he always tells the jury that he represents the State and is as much interested in protecting the defendant as in protecting society.

One day, in the Palace of Justice, the maître Became convinced of this general animosity that was pushing the defendant toward the day of execution.

In April, 1894, a record was produced before the Supreme Court which showed that the State of North Dakota had in 1891 established rates for elevating and storing grain, which rates the defendant, named Brass, who owned a small elevator, alleged to be, to him in particular, utterly ruinous, and to be in general unreasonable.

" Now when, as in the case of the Hepplewhite Tramp, the chief witness for the prosecution throws up his hands and offers to repay the defendant for the wrong he has done him, naturally it is all over but the shouting.

Did you represent the defendant in the police court?

[Footnote 2: For instance, the injunction against the employees of the Southern California Railroad requiring defendants to perform all their regular and accustomed duties "so long as they remain in the employment of the company" (62 Fed. 796), has always been severely criticised.]

"Perhaps under the circumstances you'll tell us what you were doing in Mr. Hepplewhite's bed?" "Oh, I don't mind," returned the defendant with the superior air of one who has put something over.

41 Verbs to Use for the Word  defendants