attentat
/ˌætɑnˈtɑː/
attentat noun: anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.
Noun
attentat (plural attentats)
- Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.
- All the several acts of one court day constitute, with reference to attentats, but one act, notwithstanding an appeal intermediate between those acts (h).1842, Richard Burn, The Ecclesiastical Law, 9th edition, volume 4, page 217
- An attentat, in the language of the civil and canon laws, is anything, whatsoever, wrongfully innovated or attempted in the suit by the judge à quo, pending an appeal.[…]In Chichester v. Donegal (3) it was intimated by Sir John Nicholl that “The regular course for procuring the revocation of...1848, Archibald John Stephens, A Practical Treatise of the Laws Relating to the Clergy, volume 1, page 33
- Any step wrongly innovated or attempted by an inferior judge in a suit.
- An attempted assault or assassination of a political figure; a politically motivated attempted assault.
- Their detestation of Popular Attentates, upon the Person or Authoritie of Princes.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
- The first attempt was the enactment of the Belgian so-called attentat clause by Belgium in 1856, following the case of Jacquin ² in 1854. A French manufaturer named Jules Jacquin, domiciled in Belgium, and a foreman of his factory named Célestin Jacquin, who was also a Frenchman, tried to cause an...1920, Lassa Oppenheim, edited by Ronald Roxburgh, International Law: A Treatise, volume 1, page 516
Examples of attentat in a sentence
- An attentat, in the language of the civil and canon laws, is anything, whatsoever, wrongfully innovated or attempted in the suit by the judge à quo, pending an appeal.[…]In Chichester v.1848, Archibald John Stephens, A Practical Treatise of the Laws Relating to the Clergy, volume 1, page 33:
- The first attempt was the enactment of the Belgian so-called attentat clause by Belgium in 1856, following the case of Jacquin ² in 1854.1920, Lassa Oppenheim, edited by Ronald Roxburgh, International Law: A Treatise, volume 1, page 516:
- By the end of nineteenth century the attentat clause became a general exception in making of extradition treaties.2004, U. N. Gupta, The Human Rights: Conventions And Indian Law, page 146:
- They were so naïve that it does not seem to have struck them as odd that he himself proposed to take no part in the attentat.2010, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia, page 360:
Forms of attentat
| plural | attentats |
|---|---|
| alternative form | attentate |
Origin of attentat
A variant of attemptate assimilated to Latin attentātus and French attentat.
Words that rhyme with attentat
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- Jah
- la
- lah-di-dah
- ma
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- na
- omertà
- ooh la la
- pa
- schwa
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Questions about attentat
- What does attentat mean?
- Attentat means anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.
- How do you use attentat in a sentence?
- An attentat, in the language of the civil and canon laws, is anything, whatsoever, wrongfully innovated or attempted in the suit by the judge à quo, pending an appeal.[…]In Chichester v.
- What part of speech is attentat?
- Attentat is a noun.
- How do you pronounce attentat?
- Attentat is pronounced /ˌætɑnˈtɑː/.
- What is the plural of attentat?
- The plural of attentat is attentats.
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