Crossword-Solution: DEFENDANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Defendant | a. | Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. |
| Defendant | a. | Making defense. |
| Defendant | n. | One who defends; a defender. |
| Defendant | n. | A person required to make answer in an action or suit; -- opposed to plaintiff. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “DEFENDANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| reus | 1 answer |
| a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law | 1 answer |
| Plea bargaining party | 1 answer |
| Person on trial | 1 answer |
| A person sued in a court of law | 1 answer |
| Person accused | 1 answer |
| Perry Mason's client | 1 answer |
| the person being sued or accused | 2 answers |
| person accused of a crime | 2 answers |
| the person being accused | 2 answers |
| The accused | 2 answers |
| Respondent | 3 answers |
| LEGAL party | 4 answers |
| Trial VIP | 6 answers |
| Trial figure. | 6 answers |
| appellant | 8 answers |
| Accused | 9 answers |
| Litigant | 21 answers |
| ACCUSED person | 24 answers |
| Suspect | 46 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DEFENDANT (5)
Dempsey, the Supreme Court granted the defendant a new trial because the court which had convicted him of murder had exempted Negroes from serving on its Jury.
And the Grand Master appoints the appellant to appear there by her champion, on pain of doom, as a person convicted of sorcery or seduction; and also the defendant so to appear, under the penalty of being held and adjudged recreant in case of default; and the noble Lord and most reverend Father aforesaid appointed the battle to be done in his own presence, and according to all that is commendable and profitable in such a case.
Commonly used substantively; as, the accused, one charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
When the Stranger with a Club was brought to trial, the complainant said to the Judge: "I do not know why I was assaulted; I have not an enemy in the world." "That," said the defendant, "is why I struck him." "Let the prisoner be discharged," said the Judge; "a man who has no enemies has no friends.
Quotes with DEFENDANT (3)
In all human endeavors that deal with what is unthinkable, too terrible to be dealt with squarely, we turn to what is familiar and regimented: funerals, wakes, and even wars. Now, in this trial, we had gone beyond our empathy with the pain of the victims and our niggling realization that the defendant was a fragmented personality. He knew the rules, he even knew a great deal about the law, but he did not seem to be cognizant of what was about to happen to him. He seemed to co…
In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for jury duty. I show up on time, ready to serve. When we get to the voir dire, the lawyer says to me, “I see you’re an astrophysicist. What’s that?” I answer, “Astrophysics is the laws of physics, applied to the universe — the Big Bang, black holes, that sort of thing.” Then he asks, “What do you teach at Princeton?” and I say, “I teach a class on the evaluation of eviden…
I approach the creation-evolution dispute not as a scientist but as a problem of law, which means among other things that I know something about the ways that words are used in arguments. What first drew my attention to the question was the way the rules of argument seemed to be structured to make it impossible to question whether what we are being told about evolution is really true. For example, the Academy's rule against negative argument automatically eliminates the possi…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1963–2008).