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Definition of defendant:

  • (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

Sentence Examples:

The referees agreed that this was to be done by the defendant.

Most of the defendants were sentenced to various terms in the penitentiary.

To vindicate your opinion you will find the defendants herein "not guilty."

Numerous witnesses were then introduced to prove an alibi for the defendant.

The defendants endeavored to obliterate the former national character of these territories.

The defendants endeavored to obliterate the former national character of these territories.

Of course the defendant was found guilty by the enlightened jury.

Now the investigation of the allegations depends upon plaintiff and defendant.

His indignation leaves the defendants unimpressed, however, and he becomes conciliatory.

The defendant denied the trespass and put himself on the country.

Save as herein admitted, defendant denies each and every allegation of the complaint.

Noting it, she flashed with feminine quickness from defendant to accuser.

The defendant denied the trespass and put himself on the country.

The defendant, who was evidently a humorist, was understood to demur.

The question was whether the plaintiff or defendant was legal rector.

Though defendant is a snob, I'll reward him from his fob.

I claim therefore that the defendant is entitled to a new trial.

"Pray, sir, are you personally acquainted with the defendant in this action?"

President, I have not alluded to these statements made by the defendant.

The defendant is entitled to every reasonable doubt and that is all.

It closes every chink a defendant in libel can creep out by.

"Sir," indignantly interrupted the defendant, "I am no soldier, I am an officer!"

"Sir," indignantly interrupted the defendant, "I am no soldier, I am an officer!"

The adverb is meaningless: a defendant is never partly committed for trial.

It can sympathize with both plaintiff and defendant at the same time.

They were the damning, incontrovertible proofs of the perfidy of the defendant.

And where was the proof of the allegation in the defendant's plea?

The defendant was called and sworn as a witness upon the inquest.

He certainly was not an ideal juror for the defendant, thought Sampson.

Thereupon the court asked if the defendant would waive a jury trial.

The defendant makes a move, as though he wished to interpose an objection.

The importance of mere delay to a guilty defendant cannot well be overestimated.

That ended the oratory and the jury salted the defendant handsomely.

The importance of mere delay to a guilty defendant cannot well be overestimated.

Replied the defendant who for the time represented the entire migratory class.

The onus of proving a written license lies upon the defendant in an action.

Opposition was strong on every hand, the magistrates sympathized with the defendants.

Defendant asked for a remand to enable him to dispense with legal assistance.

The jury will take notice how the defendant assaults men of unquestioned character.

If the bible is true, then the statement of the defendant is true.

I beg your pardon, the defendant thinks he was: thinks he was impertinent.

The defendant defends himself by averring that it was not his duty.

To him succeeded counsel for the defendant, whose speech was brevity itself.

His was the unalterable determination to hang that defendant for that act.

The defendant addressed the jury in his own defense and was acquitted.

Now the defendants afterwards took the fish; ergo, the aforesaid articles were theirs.

Now the defendants afterwards took the fish; ergo, the aforesaid articles were theirs.

The defendants, therefore, were acquitted, the chance happening in favor of not guilty.

The defendant being acquitted, the chief justice was again condemned as a renegade.

It is, of course, essential that the wrongdoer must be the defendant's servant.

The defendant took the selected portions, rearranged them, and made a few additions.

The Roman law has been much relied on by counsel for the defendant.

The tenure of the defendant under the quartermaster general was not so conformable.

To what extent is the defendant Karl Brandt implicated in the medical experiments?

The defendant broke the sunset calm by uttering amazing and improper phrases.

On another occasion the defendant, on being fined, was found to be totally insolvent.

If such an alibi was proved, the defendant was acquitted and at once discharged.

He made out his case skillfully enough, giving his plaintiff and defendant fictitious names.

Objected to by defendant's counsel because it is irrelevant, immaterial, unconstitutional, imitation, and incongruous.

That a decision be made to adjourn the proceedings against the defendant temporarily. b.

The defendant may also aver that what is being done does not constitute infringement.

"When, in a criminal trial, is the defendant declared to have been placed in jeopardy?"

For the defendant it was alleged that he had acted within his jurisdiction.

Were most of them as guilty of blasphemy as is the defendant in this case?

Van Dyke contended that the reply of the defendant was evasive and contradictory.

It was hard for him to follow the arraignment and the defendant's plea.

For want of sufficient proof, on this very point, the defendant was acquitted.

A true bill was found, but the multitudinous defendants challenged all Roman Catholics.

His talk sounding reasonable and being corroborated by several neighbors, defendant is acquitted.

I alluded before, gentlemen, to the circumstance of the defendant's being a married man.

Come weal, come woe, Amelia Ellen was from henceforth her staunch admirer and defendant.

The defendants procured a composer to compose an orchestral score from the pianoforte arrangement.

The Roman law has been much relied on by the counsel of the defendant.

Quietly the squire opened Tommy's book, and held it before the defendant's astonished gaze.

On the other hand, the defendant claimed that an easement only had been granted.

"Brace up, Ben, brace up, my boy," said the defendant's lawyer, half apologetically.

By the defendants, on the contrary, the lands in question are held as a patrimony.

For that reason the defendant appealed for a postponement of the trial or immediate liberation.

The defendant pleaded that he had a remarkably fine fillet of veal in the kitchen.

The unfeeling rudeness provoked no comment from the defendant, and the President proceeded.

The coachman corroborated the evidence, and the defendants were fined ten shillings each.

At law, one has to declare a defendant guilty on circumstantial evidence for practical reasons.

The fire of the top annoyed the boarders, and the defendants hesitated to advance.

It appeared that the defendant was the postmaster and general merchant of the country.

It appeared that the defendant was the postmaster and general merchant of the country.

"Is she afraid to state her defense after that terrific arraignment of the defendant?"

Surely a defendant might easily get acquitted who understands the intestine of the gnat.

In my judgment the plaintiff is entitled to recover this sum from the defendant.

The People will prove that the defendant was committing a misdemeanor at the time.

He was greatly startled himself by being summoned as a witness for the defendant.

This decision so much displeased both plaintiffs and defendant that they appealed against it.

This is a desperate theatrical trick, concocted by the prosecution to prejudice this defendant.

The defendant, Harrison, began to make and sell another stove under the same name.

The defendant utterly denied the charge, and the case was adjourned for a fortnight.

Within this framework the defendant Karl Brandt approved of official euthanasia and supported it.

In such august and complicated trials the accuser and defendant may be both innocent.

He deposed Marshal Henry because somebody said that he was the friend of the defendants.

The defendant's counsel, abandoning all idea of justification, pleaded only for a mitigation of damages.

The payment of the bail does not, however, relieve the delinquent defendant of further punishment.

He may then be interrogated by counsel for any defendant as to any material matter.