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Definition of Nonsuited
1. nonsuit [v] - See also: nonsuit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonsuited
Literary usage of Nonsuited
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott (1885)
"nonsuited cause of action.—If plaintiff is nonsuited as to one of several causes
of action he cannot use evidence, which was directly relevant only to the ..."
2. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by Massachusetts County Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow (1921)
"Plaintiff, being in prison, was nonsuited.* George Carr, sr., and James Carr v.
Capt. ... nonsuited. Appealed, with John Hoare and Thomas Putnam, jr., ..."
3. The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the ...by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1835)
"And it was formerly usual, on such paupers being nonsuited, to give them their
... So where the plaintiff sued an executor, and was nonsuited on evidence ..."
4. Montgomery's Manual of Federal Procedure, Practice and Forms by Charles Carroll Montgomery (1918)
"Double Costs Against nonsuited Plaintiff in Action Against Revenue Officer.
§ 971, Rev. Stats. "If, in any suit against an officer or other person executing ..."
5. An Essay on New Trials by David Graham (1834)
"If the judge send the case to the jury, when he ought to have nonsuited, ...
Although, by the English practice, a plaintiff cannot be nonsuited against his ..."
6. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1831)
"Tlx-se two counts could not be joined; and if final judgment had which he plaintiff
was nonsuited, and the question was, whether he should pay costs. ..."
7. An Analytical Digested Index to the Common Law Reports: From the Time of by Thomas Coventry, Samuel Hughes (1832)
"Where plaintiff is nonsuited, défendant (though he plead ал insufficient plea)
... Issue on a plea in abatement, and the plaintiff nonsuited at the assizes, ..."
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