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The defendant, if convicted, incurred disfranchisement (??????) both in his own person and that of his descendants.
"Besides, so far I don't even know which ones of you are the defendants and which are the complainants."
However, it was translated into German, and is in the document book which counsel for the defendants have.
They were approved before being carried out, and the approval inculpates the defendants whose names I have mentioned.
Wheaton, for the defendant in error, and the cause was continued for advisement until the present term.
The equitable judge decided that the plaintiff should pay the defendant the unsought balance of his bill.
He heaped vituperative aspersions upon the head of the defendant, for adding insult to injury by his disreputable defense.
In this connection, I shall not mention all the documents, testimonies, and interrogatories concerning these two defendants.
A defendant, moreover, who had suffered a previous conviction for theft or rapine was always obliged to appear personally.
A question was now put by defendant to the witness with reference to other affections, but was disallowed.
A demurrer to the plea was sustained, which ruled the plea bad, and the defendant, on leave, pleaded over.
To avert that, would not your Honor expect this defendant to be willing to perjure himself without a qualm?
"Why," asks the juryman, "didn't the defendant give back the goods if they were not what she wanted?"
The writ was adjudged bad on that ground, which seems as if the court sanctioned the defendant's view.
Plaintiffs, silversmiths' company just named: Defendants, Paul and Co.; to wit, said Paul, Alexander, Aristarchus, Alexander and others.
The yellow newspapers, hungry for sensation, have put the defendant at the mercy of every blackmailer and crank.
"I am here, sir, to testify, if desired, to the characters borne by the complainants and by the defendants."
The order of oral debate is not determined chiefly because a disputant is touchy about being classed as plaintiff or defendant.
A certain element of humor enters into the situation when a defendant convicted of bigamy is asked if he is married.
The plaintiff might then reply, and the defendant rejoin, and so on until the pleaders had exhausted themselves.
The defendant's been six months in the Tombs, with all the Syrian newspapers hollering like mad for a trial.
When trials are rapid their speed always redounds to the benefit, not of the People, but of the defendant.
I am absolutely compelled to discharge this defendant, who, by his own statement, ought to be incarcerated in State Prison!
And it is to wit that the appellant and defendant may be armed upon their bodies as surely as they will.
"I am happy," said Judge Worthington, "happy and inexpressibly honored to say that the defendant is to be married to me!"
The prophets were the sole orators of Hebrew life, but they were never allowed to appear as defendants of accused persons.
It does not seem to have occurred to the prosecutor that the defendants might be locusts, which would not be excommunicated.
Under the present system the judges of the common pleas court appoint counsel for impecunious defendants in criminal cases.
The real prosecutor is the master of the greatest empire the world ever saw; the defendant is a defenseless, proscribed exile.
The defendants were acquainted with this very handsome conduct on the part of the complainant, and, after some discussion, Capt.
In cases of complaints, the defendant only has the right to take an oath, whereas the complainant must produce witnesses.
The complainant and defendant are summoned to attend a council meeting, and the evidence is recorded by the temple manager.
The defendant puts in a plea of incompetency on the part of the vendor: this is the legal question to be resolved.
We could all see that the mispronunciation of the name had misled the judge as to the identity of the defendant.
The defendant swore he had never seen the lost heifer, and that the one in his barn he had raised himself.
And defendants wife came and said that he is not sick but detained by the bailiff for extortion, and prayed remedy.
This plea is offered in mitigation of appalling offenses in which the defendant Brandt is said to have played only an unassuming role.
You have a thorough knowledge of the antecedents of the defendant, but you are apparently undismayed, and you continue to prefer your suit.
The defendant smiled, and with his lawyer's assistance unscrewed his cork arm, and, leaving it in the dock, walked out.
The circumstantial evidence presented by the State, and by which it was sought to enmesh the defendants, was next considered.
Like a defendant who has no case, the German Government attempt to plead generally in default of being able to plead specifically.
What must have been the effect on the court officers, the witnesses, the defendants out on bail, the complainants, the spectators?
What must have been the effect on the court officers, the witnesses, the defendants out on bail, the complainants, the spectators?
The plaintiff and Sir Peter sidled to their places in front of the clerk's table, turning courteous backs on the defendant.
Wherefore, defendant demands that plaintiff take nothing by this action, and that it has judgment for costs and its disbursements.
The two defendants were to have been arraigned on December 3, but at their earnest solicitation arraignment was continued until December 6.
A synopsis of the plaint is sent to the defendant, who makes his answer in writing, which is similarly copied and sealed.
It was well done of you that you spoke so temperately of the defendant, or that you rather let facts speak for themselves.
A woman Plaintiff with a shawl over her head comes into the box, and an elderly collier, the Defendant, is opposite to her.
No question can be made but that the shawl straps manufactured and sold by the defendant are an infringement of the complainant's reissue.
The three defendants had to pay ten pounds between them; and the fact of a conviction was sufficient for exulting detractors.
He poured forth on "plaintiffs and defendants, barristers and attorneys, witnesses and jurymen, torrents of frantic abuse, intermixed with oaths and curses."
He was restored by mandamus, and brought his action on the case against the defendants who removed him, to recover his damages.
Defendant, on being arrested, had used the filthiest language, and had for some time stoutly resisted being marched off to the lock-up.
Truman's apparent disgust with the schoolbook business may have come in part from a lawsuit in which his firm was made a defendant.
No lady can be considered truly Corinthian unless she has figured as the defendant in an action for goods supplied by a milliner.
If the defendant means to plead any objections by way of demurrer or special plea, these are at once heard and disposed of.
Of all these crimes and misdeeds the procurator declared himself sufficiently informed, and the aforesaid defendant entirely, commonly, and publicly defamed.
Most defendants receive their sentence with imperturbability, for they are able with approximate accuracy to figure out what punishment they will probably receive.
The medico proved his case, and was about to retire triumphant, when the defendant humbly begged leave to ask him a few questions.
Referee Firth made his report finding the defendant guilty of the statutory offense, and ordered a decree of divorce, with a diminished alimony.
The care which the defendant took in this case was not enough, and, therefore, he had no doubt that this action was maintainable.
Neither was what had passed between the complainant and defendant privileged as a confidential communication, because the complainant was not a physician.
Kidd were defendants, a decision adverse to the distillery was obtained, and the defendants took an appeal to the supreme court of the state.
In pursuance of these plans and endeavors, the defendants forcibly deported inhabitants who were predominantly non-German and introduced thousands of German colonists.
In pursuance of these plans, the defendants forcibly deported inhabitants who were predominantly non-German and replaced them by thousands of German colonists.
In pursuance of these plans and endeavors, the defendants forcibly deported inhabitants who were predominantly non-German and introduced thousands of German colonists.
An old clergyman, who had been the defendant's tutor, swore that the handwriting of the letters was that of his former pupil.
Courts will usually grant temporary injunctions awaiting a hearing on the merits when complainants will enter into ample bonds and indemnify defendants.
The defendant is proved, in all his conduct as ambassador, to have acted in contravention of the laws, of the decrees, and of justice.
The defendant, on this occasion, by the mute presentation of a tip plate covered with baize, solicited the pecuniary contributions of the faithful.
Allows to the most fraudulent defendant, that of plea and demurrer; but the defendant is obliged to answer the whole directly upon oath.
My ears are ever open to the plaint of the plaintiff, nor shall I be deaf to the defendant in case you choose to be the latter.
According to the books, the defendant may come into court at any time, and take advantage of an omission to file interrogatories within four days.
It has been too common in actions of this kind, for the defendant to treat with contumely the humble situation of the injured prosecutor.
Reed, that as there does not seem as yet much probability that the defendants will be easily convinced, it behooves us to be on our guard.
Documentary evidence or exhibits may be received in the language of the document, but a translation thereof into German shall be made available to the defendants.
He frequently poured forth on plaintiffs and defendants, barristers and attorneys, witnesses and jurymen, torrents of frantic abuse, intermixed with oaths and curses.
When the defendants requested access to it, they were refused access on the grounds that there was classified data on the optical disk.
It is only fair to the defendant to say that he is not acting capriciously but on expert advice for the preservation of the stones.
The lawyers for the defendants lolling in their chairs settled themselves placidly to see what this humble brother would make of the business.
No case could be shown in which a defendant was to be committed for contempt, until he presented a prayer to have interrogatories propounded to him.
Four of these seven defendants pleaded guilty, two were acquitted by the jury, one was discharged on his own recognizance and none were convicted.
These two on their return, drenched by a heavy rainstorm, stated to the said defendant that during the invocation nothing had come to them.
Monsieur Antoine stopped short, apparently unmoved, but in reality greatly mortified by the superiority of the defendant's attitude over the judge's at that moment.
On the appointed day, the appellant entered the lists, accompanied by some of his nearest kindred, and was soon followed by the defendant.
Two letters have passed between these parties, letters which are admitted to be in the handwriting of the defendant, and which speak volumes indeed.
The term bail is used to designate a person who becomes a surety for the appearance of the defendant in court at the time called for.
"If the defendant was guilty of piracy, so was the complainant; and equity will not protect a pirate from infringements of his piratical work."
They are only careful of the complainant where he recovers; but where his action fails there is no provision giving the defendant full costs.
Two letters have passed between these parties, letters which are admitted to be in the handwriting of the defendant, and which speak volumes indeed.
The Germans were always meticulous record keepers, and these defendants had their share of the Teutonic passion for thoroughness in putting things on paper.
The defendant had the right to send a substitute into the field, but the appellant could do so only by consent of his adversary.
Looking enormously refreshed, he surveyed the defendants before him blankly for a moment and then, quite astonishingly, grinned with a sort of gentle mischievousness.
"I know nothing," said he, "of plaintiff and defendant; I only know, as I have said already, that Tom knocked Jack down with a marlinspike."
That is to say, where the complainant recovers he must get from the defendant, and the court must allow the complainant, full costs.
The viewers have been legally summoned to view and examine a fence which separates the lands of the complainant's from the land of the defendants.
There will always be some persons who think that every defendant should be convicted and feel aggrieved if he is turned out by the jury.
There will always be some persons who think that every defendant should be convicted and feel aggrieved if he is turned out by the jury.
The judge accepted this offer, and accompanied by plaintiff, defendant, and several witnesses, wended his way up the mountain to the disputed alp.