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Taking a position with regard to a dispute or when various options are available. In Scotch law. A resting place; a field or place adjoining a drove-road for resting and refreshing sheep and cattle on their journey. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition (1) An impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which certain legal … [Read more...]

To abide; to submit to; as "to stand a trial." To remain as a thing is; to remain in force. Pleadings demurred to and held good are allowed to stand. Standing aside jurors. A practice by which, on the drawing of a jury for a criminal trial, the prosecuting officer puts aside a juror, provisionally, until the panel is exhausted, without disclosing his reasons, instead of being … [Read more...]

In Saxon law. Larceny. Also late or barred. In the language of the courts of equity, a "stale" claim or demand is one which has not been pressed or asserted for so long a time that the owner or creditor is chargeable with laches, and that changes occurring meanwhile in the relative situation of the parties, or the intervention of new Interests or equities, would render the … [Read more...]