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Example sentences for "action against"

  • When tenants commence an action against a lord for wrongful disseisin, it is sufficient for him to answer that they are "but his tenantry at wyll.

  • At the same Assizes, Mr. Leathes brought an action against a farmer, named Long, for not setting out his tithes according to law.

  • The Corporation, in an action against him, recovered the charges, which amounted to 16s.

  • If the hirer should sell the automobile without authority to a third party, the owner or bailor may bring an action against even an innocent purchaser who believed that the hirer had the title and power to sell.

  • And whenever a sublease is made, the rights of the original lessor are not changed, nor does he recognize in any way the sub-tenant unless by agreement, nor has he any right of action against him.

  • The paper was sent to Mr Bradlaugh, who eventually brought an action against Mr Laker.

  • She learned, however, that she was too fearful, that he was trading on her alarm, that he could not bring an action against her, because at the time that promise had been given she was a ward and not of age.

  • He wrote to say that if the money were not sent him by Thursday he should at once commence an action against her.

  • Hold those letters as a rod over her, threaten to bring an action against her--she will never know that such an action cannot stand; or if that does not do, threaten to show them to her husband.

  • He appears to have been in the first place a monk of Bromholm, the prior of which monastery having brought an action against him as an apostate from his order, engaged William Paston as his counsel in the prosecution.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    action against; action shall; action stations; confess that; considerable sum; described below; electoral college; explain matters; fifteen feet; four lemons; get married; great stir; know well; legislative power; local inflammation; nothing doing; received sentence; sound like; the supreme; then down; this word; through the; what cause; what took