All 5 Uses of
defendant
in
Bleak House
- The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.†
Chpt 1-3
- Jostling against clerks going to post the day's letters, and against counsel and attorneys going home to dinner, and against plaintiffs and defendants and suitors of all sorts, and against the general crowd, in whose way the forensic wisdom of ages has interposed a million of obstacles to the transaction of the commonest business of life; diving through law and equity, and through that kindred mystery, the street mud, which is made of nobody knows what and collects about us nobody…†
Chpt 10-12
- Seventeen people were made defendants to that simple suit!†
Chpt 13-15 *
- He then found out that there were not defendants enough—remember, there were only seventeen as yet!†
Chpt 13-15
- Whether "Tom" is the popular representative of the original plaintiff or defendant in Jarndyce and Jarndyce, or whether Tom lived here when the suit had laid the street waste, all alone, until other settlers came to join him, or whether the traditional title is a comprehensive name for a retreat cut off from honest company and put out of the pale of hope, perhaps nobody knows.†
Chpt 16-18
Definition:
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(defendant) a person or institution legally accused or sued in court