Search for: legalism
741 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To seek justice or right from one by legal process; to institute process in law against one; to prosecute in a civil action for the recovery of a real or supposed right; as, to sue one for debt; to sue one for damages in trespass. Matthew 5:40 .
742 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To gain by legal process.
743 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUE.6 (Noah Webster)
SUE, v.i. To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek for in law; as, to sue for damages.
744 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUIT.9 (Noah Webster)
7. In law, an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.
745 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUITOR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. One who attends a court, whether plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror and the like. These, in legal phraseology, are all included in the word suitors.
746 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SURREBUT.1 (Noah Webster)
SURREBUT, v.i. [sur and rebut.] In legal pleadings, to reply, as a plaintif, to a defendant’s rebutter.
747 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SURREJOIN.1 (Noah Webster)
SURREJOIN, v.i. [sur and rejoin.] In legal pleadings, to reply, as a plaintif to a defendant’s rejoinder.
748 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TAXABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff or defendant in a suit; as taxable costs.
749 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TENDER.3 (Noah Webster)
… a legal tender, such money must be offered as the law prescribes; the offer of bank notes is not a legal tender. So also the tender must be at the time and place …
750 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TENDER.6 (Noah Webster)
4. The thing offered. This money is not a legal tender.
751 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TIE.17 (Noah Webster)
1. Bond; obligation, moral or legal; as the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
752 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TORT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Mischief; calamity. [Except in the legal sense above explained, it is obsolete.]
753 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TOWN-HOUSE.1 (Noah Webster)
TOWN-HOUSE, n. [town and house.] The house where the public business of the town is transacted by the inhabitants in legal meeting.
754 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRIAL.6 (Noah Webster)
… be legally deprived of that privilege.
755 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNDUE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Not right; not legal; improper; as an undue proceeding.
756 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNFORBID.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Allowed; permitted; legal; applied to things.
757 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNPARDONED.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Not having received a legal pardon. The convict returned unpardoned.
758 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNSETTLED.6 (Noah Webster)
5. Not having a legal settlement in a town or parish.
759 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. USURY.3 (Noah Webster)
[Usury formerly denoted any legal interest, but in this sense, the word is no longer in use.]
760 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VALID.3 (Noah Webster)
… . Having legal strength or force; efficacious; executed with the proper formalities; that cannot be rightfully overthrown or set aside; supportable by law …