Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, an obsolete plea in bar to a real action, by saying that he (the defendant) held not the land mentioned in the plaintiff's count or declaration, or at least some part thereof.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law A
defendant 'splea that he/she did not hold the land, asaffirmed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The majority of the layoffs have involved nontenure teaching positions, with cuts determined by seniority.
Archive 2009-08-01 Jim Horn 2009
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The majority of the layoffs have involved nontenure teaching positions, with cuts determined by seniority.
100,000 Teachers Lose Jobs - But Not TFAers Kenneth Libby 2009
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The majority of the layoffs have involved nontenure teaching positions, with cuts determined by seniority.
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So his supervisors agreed that he would spend the first several years in a nontenure-track position and then transition to a tenure-track position, which he is doing now.
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(NIH's research grant eligibility requirements have long been "tenure-track or equivalent," the term BWF and HHMI recently adopted.) "I'm one of the lucky few," he says, noting that most nontenure-track physician-scientists have neither salary guarantees nor protected time.
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The board voted to re-employ 10 nontenure certified staff, as well as nonunion certified staff and nonunion, noncertified staff.
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These days, new faculty members are increasingly likely to be hired in nontenure-track positions, a better match for the short-term grant funding the institutions rely on.
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The majority of the layoffs have involved nontenure teaching positions, with cuts determined by seniority.
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"Pitt's very good at developing from within and very supportive of people in that category of nontenure-track," he says.
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Like Wendell, Moody negotiated a nontenure-track position followed by a transition to a tenure-track position when he felt ready.
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