law term
Britishnoun
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an expression or word used in law
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any of various periods of time appointed for the sitting of law courts
Example Sentences
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Salmond was suing the government for misfeasance - a civil law term that means the wrongful exercise of lawful authority - when he died in October 2024 while attending a conference in North Macedonia.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
It later emerged that messages had been exchanged between women complainers - a Scots law term for someone alleging that they are a victim of crime - and also between SNP staff members.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
The former first minster has sued the government for misfeasance – a civil law term that means the wrongful exercise of lawful authority.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024
Substraction is a law term meaning the withholding of some right, for which, however, the word subtraction is also used.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by L. P. Meredith
As commonly used nowadays this term is equivalent to "dunce," but it was originally employed as a law term.
From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
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