The first fifteen times, the plaintiffs won on the strength of their Indian title.
This incident is particularly interesting because one of the plaintiffsand the lawyer in this great case was the famous John Read, one of the ablest men and most remarkable characters which New England has produced.
To the honour, the plaintiffs added the profit, of being silversmiths to that same Excellent Church.
I was pursuing my profession, keeping company with judges and jurors, and plaintiffs and defendants.
All three of the plaintiffs took the stand, their testimony supporting the complaint, Lovell's attorney refusing even to cross-examine any one of them.
The plaintiffs here can claim no assignment, because they themselves constitute the company.
The crowd dispersed quietly, though the sheriff took the precaution to accompany the plaintiffs and Tolleston back to their hotel.
The older of the two attorneys for the plaintiffs asked a few questions, but the replies were so unsatisfactory to their side, that they soon passed the witness.
In the same Bible was an entry of the plaintiffs baptism, signed by the officiating clergyman.
There was no competition or possible contractual relation between the plaintiffs and defendants, where their interests were naturally opposed.
He related the circumstances of the case, and maintained that there was no contract between either of the plaintiffs and the four defendants jointly or severally, that they would pay a sum of $200.
Plaintiffs neglecting to go to trial after an issue has been joined may be nonsuited.
Before the case was next to be heard in the King's Court an injunction issued out of the Chancery to the plaintiffs not to proceed to judgment, on pain of 100 pounds, and for a long time judgment was not asked for.
It is the ruling of this court," he said formally, "that the plaintiffs have not presented sufficient evidence to prove tampering with the fuel line of the G-boat of the spaceship Radiant Hope.
Since the plaintiffs have not been able to prove their contention, this court of complaint has no alternative than to dismiss the case.
The court must remind the plaintiffs that this could have been done accidentally, through inept handling of cargo.
Wherefore the plaintiffs now sued for the recovery of the value of their whale, line, harpoons, and boat.
The following considerations advanced by one of the plaintiffs are not without interest.
The plaintiffsare divested, without trial or judgment.
The plaintiffs have such an interest in this corporation, individually, as they could assert and maintain in a court of law, not as agents of the public, but in their own right.
Can any man deny that the plaintiffs had rights, under the charter, which were legally vested, and that by these acts those rights are impaired?
The learned judges who delivered that opinion have viewed this question in a very different light from that in which the plaintiffs have endeavored to exhibit it.
The plaintiffs contend, in the second place, that the acts in question are repugnant to the tenth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States.
The legislature of New Hampshire has no more power over the rights of the plaintiffs than existed somewhere, in some department of government, before the Revolution.
And the plaintiffs have endeavored to satisfy the court, that, according to the well-settled principles and uniform decisions of law, they are private, eleemosynary corporations.
The plaintiffs then appealed first to the High Court and then to the House of Lords and a new trial was ordered.
After the verdict had been given against them the plaintiffs attempted, though without success, to obtain yet another trial of the case.
In two short paragraphs, Justice Miller disposed of the contention of the plaintiffs in error to the effect that the Louisiana statute deprived the plaintiffs of their property without due process of law.
Justice Miller dismissed with a tone of impatience the idea of the counsel for the plaintiffs in error that the Louisiana statute in question imposed an "involuntary servitude" forbidden by the Thirteenth Amendment.
The victim of the assault," the plaintiffs deposed, "was your servants' master.
Clark, his partner and afterwards one of the plaintiffs in this present suit, Mr. S.
In virtue of this natural and constitutional right, the plaintiffs ask the court to overrule the law, and give effect to rights lying behind it, and rising superior to its authority.
As shown by the plaintiffs' brief, the plaintiffs claim the elective franchise under the first section of the XIV.
To this the plaintiffs reply that the language of the statute does exclude women, but they say that in the presence of the first section of the XIV.
In fact, the whole argument of the plaintiffs proceeds upon that idea.
The position taken is, that the plaintiffs have a right to vote, independent of the law; even in defiance of the terms of the law.
Minor and Francis Minor, her husband, Plaintiffs in Error, vs.
The three plaintiffs had not been able to leave the island of Saint George until day-break, and the husband, on reaching his house, had found his wife quietly asleep in her bed.
Nineteen suffragists appeared as plaintiffs in the case as follows: Edna M.
They argued that the plaintiffs were not legally entitled to sue because they were not electors.
The court acknowledged the validity of this plea, but the plaintiffs declined to be bound for the good behaviour of their cats.
The plaintiffs agreed to this compromise, with the proviso that, in default of the defendants accepting the terms offered them, the judge would order that the vineyards should be respected by the beetles under certain penalties.
The case was debated two or three times during Henry III's reign, and in 1279 judgment was given against the plaintiffs by an imposing quorum, as many as eight judges with the Chief Justice Ralph Hengham at their head.
It all ends by the collapse of the plaintiffs for no apparent reason; they do not come into court ultimately, and the jurors plead guilty of having given a false verdict; see App.
In trials it is quite a common thing for a lord, when accused of having altered the services, to plead that the plaintiffs were his villains to be treated at will.
When this question had been solved in the affirmative, a jury had to decide what the customs and duties were, by which the ancestors of the plaintiffs held at the time when the crown was possessed of the manor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaintiffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
