Plaintiff Sentence Examples

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  • In the case of a lawsuit the plaintiff preferred his own plea.

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  • After several days' trial, during which Cullen was submitted to a very close examination, the verdict was given for the plaintiff with 4d.

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  • The plaintiff having made his demand and waited a certain time without result, went and sat without food before the door of the defendant.

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  • Before filing a petition for a divorce the plaintiff must have resided within the state at least one year.

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  • The plaintiff must be a resident of the state for two years before filing a petition for a divorce.

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  • A plaintiff must reside in the state one year before filing an application for a divorce.

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  • Either party may marry again, but a defendant who has been found guilty of adultery is not permitted to marry the co-respondent during the life of the plaintiff.

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  • If, for example, both sides' accountants come up with similar damages amounts for a case where a ruling is likely to be in favor of the plaintiff, that can be a strong incentive to settle.

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  • They were both in work, and if plaintiff would only bide her time some other young fellow would come along and marry her.

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  • The defendant amended his report and sent it to the plaintiff's solicitors.

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  • In c. 21 he gives either plaintiff or defendant an appeal within ten days to the secular judge of the locality from the bishop's judgment.

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  • As soon as a divorce has been granted the plaintiff may marry again, but the defendant is not permitted to marry within the state any one except the plaintiff until five years have elapsed, and then only in case the court permits it because of the petitioner's uniformly good conduct in the meantime.

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  • Georgia, by which the plaintiff, one Alexander Chisolm, a citizen of South Carolina, secured judgment in 1793 against the state of Georgia (see 2 Dallas Reports 419).

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  • The plaintiff must reside in the state for one year immediately preceding his or her application for a divorce unless the parties were married in the state and the applicant has resided there since the marriage.

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  • The king held his court in person less and less often, and it pronounced its decrees in his absence; we even find him pleading his cause before it as plaintiff or defendant.

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  • The process could continue with a replication from the plaintiff, a rejoinder from the defendant (and possibly even further pleadings).

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  • The defendant amended his report and sent it to the plaintiff 's solicitors.

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  • The plaintiff was ordered to serve a statement of claim and the summons for directions was adjourned generally with liberty to restore.

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  • The inebriated Plaintiff or Claimant has long been a cause for concern in the analysis of the tortious duty of care.

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  • The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £ 120.

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  • Even when a law suit is settled or a judgment handed down in favor of the plaintiff, it can still take time before the lawyer collects any money for his or or her hard work.

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  • The fees involved are a certain percentage of the amount awarded to the plaintiff.

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  • These are either agreed upon in advance or they are charges that the plaintiff in the case seeks to prove.

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  • When looking for an attorney, however, a potential plaintiff should look for more than just an impressive name or a fancy office.

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  • Sometimes just a co-signer, a named plaintiff or defendant and the locale will be enough to give you fresh clues in the hunt for your elusive ancestors.

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  • Aside from the worst case scenario of learning one of your dear ancestors was a career criminal, you may find that your ancestor was a plaintiff or a witness in a case.

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  • Among its members we find an Erni Winkelried acting as a witness to a contract of sale on the 1st of May 1367, while the same man, or perhaps another member of the family, Erni von Winkelried, is plaintiff in a suit at Stans on the 29th of September 1389, and in 1417 is the landamman (or head man) of Unterwalden, being then called Arnold Winkelriet.

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  • The plaintiff, William Gaskill, sought damages for personal injuries following childhood contact with wood treatment chemicals including lindane.

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  • A weak case for a plaintiff is not gross negligence.

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  • The basis of the claim was that the power had been exercised to induce the plaintiff to confess.

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  • If an injured plaintiff is treated in hospital as a private patient he is entitled to recover the cost of that treatment.

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  • They made her the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit seeking to legalize abortion.

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  • Nonexistent the players plaintiff would learn low-key in promoting kondracke wolf blitzer.

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  • For lawyers operating a plaintiff's practice, managing cash flow can raise a challenge as fees earned are most often dependent on winning the case.

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  • Find a company that specializes in funding for plaintiff's lawyers.

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  • When a person sues another person, company, or institution, the wronged party is the plaintiff.

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  • In a plaintiff practice, the attorney will collect a certain percentage of the amount given to the plaintiff as his or her legal fees.

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  • A traditional banker may not have a clear understanding of how a plaintiff litigation practice works and how best to meet their unique needs.

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  • If a plaintiff having duly fasted did not receive within a certain time the satisfaction of his claim, he was entitled.

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  • The plaintiff must prove that he has re-entered into possession, his title during the period for which he claims, the fact that the defendant has been in possession during that period, and the amount of the mesne profits.

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  • Ten days later, the plaintiff crossed the fence in upon the land, with a law agent, a witness and a pair of horses yoked or harnessed, and in a loud voice stated the amount of the debt and called upon the defendant to pay it according to law.

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  • In cases involving cross actions with mutual accounts, say between an Englishman and a German, if the German constitutes himself plaintiff he must sue his opponent before the British court, and vice versa.

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  • The plaintiff could swear to his loss by brigands, as to goods claimed, the price paid for a slave purchased abroad or the sum due to him.

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  • The principal grounds for divorce are impotence, bigamy, adultery, conviction of felony or other infamous crime subsequent to the marriage or before the marriage if unknown to the other party, desertion or habitual drunkenness for one year, such cruel or barbarous treatment as to endanger the life of the other, such conduct as to render the condition of the other intolerable, and vagrancy of the husband; but before applying for a divorce the plaintiff must reside in the state for one year immediately preceding, unless the cause of action was given within the state or while the plaintiff was a resident of the state.

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  • When a defendant was of rank superior to that of the plaintiff, distress had to be preceded by troscad (=fasting).

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  • If the husband is the plaintiff his interest in his wife's property is not impaired by the dissolution of the marriage, but the defendant wife forfeits all her interest in his property.

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  • Before applying for an absolute divorce the plaintiff must have resided in the state for the year next preceding, unless the cause of action is adultery committed while the plaintiff was a resident of the state.

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  • The plaintiff must have resided in the state for at least the year preceding the application, and if the cause accrued in some other state or country before the parties lived together in Vermont and while neither party lived there, the plaintiff must have been a resident at least for two years preceding the action.

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  • An example of this is found in the ninth canon of Chalcedon, which also illustrates the enforcement upon a clerical plaintiff in dispute with a brother cleric of that recourse to the arbitration of their ecclesiastical superior already mentioned.

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  • Opinions differ as to the true import of these glosses; some scholars hold that the Salic Law was originally written in the Frankish vernacular, and that these words are remnants of the ancient text, while others regard them as legal formulae such as would be used either by a plaintiff in introducing a suit, or by the judge to denote the exact composition to be pronounced.

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  • A petition for a divorce may be presented after a residence within the state of one year immediately preceding, and a decree may be granted against the defendant if judged guilty of adultery, desertion for two years without reasonable cause, habitual drunkenness, such inhuman treatment as to endanger the life of the plaintiff, or if convicted of felony after marriage.

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  • In the Amisgerichi a private litigant may conduct his own case; but where the object of the litigation exceeds 300 marks (g15), and in appeals from the Amisgerichi to the Land gericht, the plaintiff (and also the defendant) must be represented by an advocate Rechtsanwalt.

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  • The causes for a divorce are cruelty, adultery, desertion for three years, or conviction after marriage of a felony and imprisonment in the state prison without being pardoned within one year after conviction; the plaintiff must reside in the county six months before beginning suit.

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  • When a divorce is granted, the defendant is not permitted to marry other than the plaintiff for three years, unless the plaintiff dies.

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  • Milbourn (1867) the defendant had broken his contract to let a lecture-room to the plaintiff, on discovering that the intended lectures were to maintain that "the character of Christ is defective, and his teaching misleading, and that the Bible is no more inspired than any other book," and the court of exchequer held that the publication of such doctrine was blasphemy, and the contract therefore illegal.

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  • Three of the four judges allowed the defence of the cardinal to be valid; but it was held that the papal rescript upon which he relied for his extraordinary powers as delegate was illegal under statute; and the lord chief justice decided that the plaintiff could not renounce his natural and civil liberty.

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