nonsuit

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Toler's reason for it was that he was too constitutional to interfere with a jury, Be that as it may, a nonsuit was a nonentity, 'I hope, my Lord,' said counsel in a case actually commanding one, 'your Lordship will, for once, have the courage to nonsuit?

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  1. noun A judgment against a plaintiff for failure to prosecute the case or to introduce sufficient evidence.
  2. transitive verb To render a judgment of nonsuit against (a plaintiff).

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  1. Middle English, failure of a plaintiff to prosecute, from Anglo-Norman nounsuite : noun-, no (from Latin nōn; see non-) + suite, suit; see suit.

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  1. from Old French non, suit (from Latin non sequitur), he does not follow: non, not; suit, 3d person singular present indicative of suivre, from Latin sequi, follow: see non- and suit.
  2. from nonsuit, n.
  3. from Old French non suit: see nonsuit, n.
 

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/ˈnɑnsjut/
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