Crossword-Solution: COUNTERCLAIM 12 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The only exception to this rule is the action on deposit, against which we have deemed it no less than dishonest to allow any counterclaim to be set up; for if this were permitted persons might be fraudulently prevented from recovering property deposited under the pretence of a setoff.

Historically, there was much more to be said for the contention that parliament existed by grace of the monarchy than for the counterclaim that the monarchy existed by grace of parliament; and for the plea that parliament only possessed such powers as the crown had granted, than for the counter-assertion that the crown only enjoyed such rights as parliament had conceded.

And I shall put in a counterclaim for the lunches you carry away from breakfast every morning in your pockets." "In that event we'll call it off, madame," returned the Idiot, as with a courtly bow and a pleasant smile he left the room.

Now Snooks’s lawyer was a man To wrong would never pander; And like a high-souled Pleader drew A COUNTERCLAIM for slander; And then with cautious skill behind The legal outworks clambers; Until dislodged, he held his own Entrenched in Judges’ Chambers.

PAGE OUTSIDE THE RECORD 1 IN THE MATTER OF BATEMAN 18 THE FINDING OF FACT 45 A CONCLUSION OF LAW 59 THE BURDEN OF PROOF 75 IN HIS OWN BEHALF 101 HIS HONOUR 115 AN ABSTRACT STORY 141 BY WAY OF COUNTERCLAIM 162 IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE 184 THE LATEST DECISION 201 THE DISTANT DRUM 209 THE CASE AND EXCEPTIONS.