Nor was the lord’s position made more hopeful by the furious feuds between noble and noble which distracted the provinces in the fifteenth century, and the incessantlawsuits by which the landowners sought to mend their fortunes.
The party of violence won the day and a fierce maritime war followed with open hostilities and reprisals and lawsuits and endless negociations.
The proprietor professed himself satisfied to accept the proposal, provided my father would undertake to indemnify him for any expense to which he might be put by future lawsuits concerning the property or boundaries of this bog.
As long as the bogs were unprofitable there was no incitement to a strict definition of boundaries, but if the land was reclaimed many lawsuits would follow.
It has been said that there have been more lawsuits in the Philippines than in any other country of the same size and population, which remark probably would apply to any country where the Spanish judicial system had lately obtained.
The upshot of this obstinacy was that the honorable judges gave the decision to the friars, and everybody laughed at him, saying that lawsuits are not won by justice.
The legal owner appears to be domiciled in America, and as he has been able to resist my lawsuits and has refused all my offers of purchase, I gather that in that democratic country he has amassed a certain measure of wealth.
And yet the man has many thousands to throw away in these absurd lawsuits with me.
She joins me in the hope that your lawsuits are progressing favorably, and that you will be with us soon.
On the twentieth of the month, Warwick set out with Tryon for the county seat of the adjoining county, to try one of the lawsuits which had required Tryon's presence in South Carolina for so long a time.
In general the notaries were men of rather meagre education; their work on deeds and marriage settlements was too often very poorly done, and lawsuits were all the more common in consequence.
It was well that most seigneurs had more land than they could use; had it not been for this their lawsuits over disputed boundaries would have been unending.
The intendant Raudot suggested that this propensity should be curbed, otherwise there would soon be more lawsuits than settlers in the colony.
Transome Court, a place there had been a fine sight of lawsuits about.
And turning the old lawsuits and everything else over in my mind, I thought the law might have something to do with it.
By now, I am already conductinglawsuits for almost ten years, and still, I have no result.
Unfortunately, there are not just a few lawyers, who, entirely without scruples, turn to these most unfair of all means, to conduct lawsuits which cannot be won based on the facts in a personally malignant and ruthless manner.
Then, when a few years later, Lebius started an argument and lawsuitswith the "Vorwaerts" in Berlin, they listed the military author Dittrich as a witness against him.
I am not willing to prejudge the pending lawsuits and will therefore only discuss those points which have been fully resolved.
It is just barely enough for my modest household and for the hard sacrifices I have to make for the lawsuits I have been forced into.
A dozen lawsuits have detained me, so that by no means I would be able to escape, and everybody who wanted money from me, but did not get any, has behaved like a disciplinarian and has been bashing away at me.
All affairs or lawsuits of the lords and the nobility belonging to the towns of the provinces situated in the plain, were to be attended to and settled in his town.
Nor was it only the expenses of great lawsuits which bore heavily upon the nunneries; a great deal of lesser legal business had to be transacted from year to year.
Ordinary lawsuits shall not follow the royal court around, but shall be held in a fixed place.
No sheriff, constable, coroners, or other royal officials are to holdlawsuits that should be held by the royal justices.
The Justices of the Peace had administrative duties in control of vagrancy, upkeep of roads and bridges, and arbitration of lawsuits referred to them by courts.
This statute of mortmain was neutralized by collusive lawsuits in which the intended grantor would sue the intended grantee claiming superior title and then would default, surrendering the land to the intended grantee by court judgment.
The complications of the open system with its endless quarrels and lawsuits were avoided.
Under the prevailing system, a large portion of the lawsuits determined in courts, are mere contests of purses rather than of rights.
If it should fall into the Countess' hands, she might turn it to her own account, and that would be the beginning of a series of interminable lawsuitsbetween her and Gobseck.
Then he won certainlawsuits against the Canal d'Orleans, and recovered a tolerably large amount of property, with which the Emperor had endowed various public institutions.
The care taken not to convict without sufficient evidence, and the thoroughness with which each case was investigated, is one of the most striking features in the records of the Babylonian lawsuits which have come down to us.
Lawsuits connected with the sale or lease of houses do not seem to have been uncommon.
Fortunes have been made, and lost in riotous living; scores of visionary men have been disappointed; lawsuits about titles and claims have multiplied, and quarrels ending in murder have been frequent in the past few years.
To be fond of lawsuits seems a characteristic of an isolated people in new conditions.
There are as many lawsuits and questions hanging over him as he has hairs on his head.
Meanwhile Panna Aleksandra restrained with great zeal the desire for lawsuits in the Lauda people.
But, since I am no common woman, but an innocent maiden, if Thou wish to possess me, let thy children renounce every claim, lest they raise lawsuits hereafter with my children.
If Thou knew, mother, how many lawsuits there are in Lower Egypt for insults to the gods, and in Upper Egypt for robbing the dead, Thou wouldst be convinced that for our people the cause of the priests has ceased to be holy.
There can be no doubt that public and penal causes were to a great extent decided in Athens, and the few definite statements which are extant refer to lawsuits of this nature.
Lawsuits became so common, that it was impossible, without salaries, that the citizens could abandon their own business for that of others.
Says Aristophanes, "The cicada [grasshopper] sings for only a month, but the people of Athens are buzzing with lawsuits and trials their whole life long.
Seven long years of lawsuitshad excited in him such a sentiment of indignation, that it occasionally showed itself in severe expressions; thus he wrote to one of his friends: "What I most detest in this world are plagiarists!
This I can assure the reader to be a fact, for I was told it by the members of the council of the Indies themselves, when I was in Spain in the year 1540 on account of some lawsuits which were pending between myself and others.
But the term ought not to be less than thirty years at least, renewable, of course, like the shorter term of fifteen; this would quiet possession and get rid of lawsuits for the period of a generation of men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawsuits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
