Upon suing for their habeas corpus, a return was made that they were detained for notable contempts, and for stirring up sedition, alleged in a warrant under the king's sign manual.
It seems to have been intended to follow the shutting up of the exchequer with a still more unwarrantable stretch of power, by granting an injunction to the creditors who were suing the bankers at law.
State prohibiting in terms persons who practise physic or surgery without a license, from suing to obtain a recovery for services performed.
The day after this interview the bailiff of the justice-of-peace did Cerizet the service of suing la Peyrade secretly.
I will pay you the amount of the notes for Dutocq, and your costs in suing Theodose.
He had not thought it necessary to go into any elaborate explanation, consequently he had not mentioned the fact that they were the ancestors of the man who was suing for the recovery of the place.
Constrained by these circumstances, the Menapii send ambassadors to him for the purpose of suing for peace.
In the meantime ambassadors from several nations come to him, whom, on their suing for peace and alliance, he answers in a courteous manner, and orders hostages to be brought to him.
On giving his first vote, was served with a writ suing for penalty.
March had left the realm; Bishop Wykeham showed an unworthy subservience by suing for pardon through the mediation of Alice Perrers.
Warwick was at the moment suing for the hand of Louis XI.
You have been suinghim under Metivier's name, and you mean me to buy you off; that is the long and the short of it.
Have you forgotten that the Cointets are suing us under Metivier's name?
He was suing for a penalty, which the Act of Parliament gave him the right to sue for.
The authorities that had been cited on the other side did not touch the case, because the plaintiff was suing for penalties, which, if recovered, would be for his own benefit.
The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law.
As to the rest, when clients did not pay, Lincoln was averse to suing them.
A notable exception to the rule against suing for fees was made in the case of one wealthy client--the Illinois Central Railroad Company.
Anne in turn hated Wolsey, as he probably knew that she would, and she compelled him to stoop to the disgrace of suing for her favour.
He could not have been ignorant of her correspondence with Chapuys: he probably knew that she had wished to escape out of the realm, and that the Pope, who was now suing to him, had meant to bestow his own crown upon her.
The right that woman enjoyed before the courts of being sued and of suing was, however, a negative one.
After Isabelle's return to France, Henry still persisted in suing for her hand, but it was impossible to move her determination.
I have never known anybody to get rich by suing newspapers for libel.
But I have known cases in which vindictiveness, or the hope of money gain, has prompted the aggrieved person to persist in suing for damages and rejecting the offer of other reparation.
In suing newspapers for libel it is the custom of suitors to name large sums as the measure of the damages claimed, but this is a thing inspired mainly by vanity and a spirit of ostentation.
Betrayed by his burghers, without friends and without cash, by the end of April he had lost all heart, and presently he was on his knees at Ardenburg before Charles of Valois, the French commander, humbly suing for peace.
You see I amsuing to you, Roma--I who have never sued to any human being.
Naturally, I have no desire to humiliate myself further by suing to a woman who despises me.
His full pardon Bacon did not get, though earnestly suing for it, that he might not "die in ignominy.
Though she knew that I was right, she would not stand for me suing the Muenchmeyers.
And some time later, she had told her in the same laughing manner that she had now also taken the documents from the desk drawer and had burnt them; by this, she wanted to prevent me from suing the Muenchmeyers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: court; gallantry; serenade; suit; wooing
