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Demurrer

noun
1.
(law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings.  Synonyms: demur, demurral.
2.
(law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings.
3.
A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him.  Synonyms: defence, defense, denial.






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"Demurrer" Quotes from Famous Books



... conceivable, would have been the abrogation of the Treaty of Bucharest and the redistribution of the territories, which its authors had divided with so little regard for abstract justice and the stability of peace. And to this procedure, which Bulgaria ostentatiously demanded, Serbia entered a firm demurrer in which she was joined by Greece. For Serbs and Bulgars have always been hypnotized by Macedonia. Their gaze is fixed on that land as by some magic fascination, which interest and reason are powerless to break. They think of the future development, nay of the ...
— England and Germany • Emile Joseph Dillon



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