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A voluntary removal of a claim or objection, a legal position, or a statement of defense or counterclaim by a defendant. … [Read more...] about WITHDRAWAL

The name given to a code of maritime laws promulgated at Wisby, then the capital of Gothland, in Sweden, in the latter part of the thirteenth cen-tury. This compilation resembled the laws of Oleron in many respects, and was early adopted, as a system of sea laws, by the commercial nations of Northern Europe. It formed the foundation for the subsequent code of the Hanseatic … [Read more...] about WISBY, LAWS OF

practice. An agreement made between the parties in a suit to require one of the twelve juror's impaneled to try a cause to leave the jury box; the act of leaving the box by such a juror is also called the withdrawing a juror. 2. This arrangement usually takes place at the recommendation of the judge, when it is obviously improper the case should proceed any further. 3. The … [Read more...] about WITHDRAWING A JUROR

Among the Saxons, this was a measure of land; it contained a half hide, or sixty acres. … [Read more...] about WISTA

In practice. The withdrawing by a plaintiff of the nisi prius or trial record filed in a cause, just before the trial is entered upon, for the purpose of preventing the cause from being tried. This may be done before the Jury are sworn, and afterwards, by consent of the defendant's counsel. 2 Tidd, Pr. 851; 1 Archb. Pr. EL B. 189; 3 Chit. Pr. 870. … [Read more...] about WITHDRAWING RECORD