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vexatious
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Vexatious
(gcide) | Vexatious \Vex*a"tious\, a. [See Vexation.]
1. Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a
vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor. "Continual
vexatious wars." --South.
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2. Full of vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.
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He leads a vexatious life. --Sir K.
Digby.
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Vexatious suit (Law), a suit commenced for the purpose of
giving trouble, or without cause.
[1913 Webster] -- Vex*a"tious*ly, adv. --
Vex*a"tious*ness, n.
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vexatious
(wn) | vexatious
adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying
rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is
particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it
galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating
delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito";
"swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety
catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him";
"a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you
are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling,
irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering,
pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing] |
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vexatious
(encz) | vexatious,otravný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
vexatious litigation
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vexatiously
(encz) | vexatiously,otravně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
annoying galling chafing irritating nettlesome pesky pestiferous pestilent plaguy plaguey teasing vexatious vexing
(gcide) | Ill-natured \Ill`-na"tured\, a.
1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition;
surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed;
-- of people; as, an ill-natured person; an ill-natured
disagreeable old man. Opposite of good-natured.
[Narrower terms: {argumentative, contentious,
disputatious, disputative, litigious : {atrabilious,
bilious, dyspeptic, liverish : {bristly, prickly,
snappish, splenetic, waspish : {cantankerous, crotchety,
ornery : {choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed,
hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered : {crabbed,
crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy,
bad-tempered, ill-tempered}: {cranky, fractious,
irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy,
tetchy, techy : {crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored,
ill-humoured}: {dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen : {feisty, touchy : {huffish,
sulky}: {misanthropic, misanthropical : {misogynous :
shirty, snorty ill-tempered or annoyed): {shrewish,
nagging, vixenish : surly, ugly ] Also See: {unpleasant.
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2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The
ill-natured task refuse." --Addison.
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3. Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured
land." --J. Philips.
3. not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable. Opposite of
agreeable. [WordNet sense 2] [Narrower terms: {annoying,
galling, chafing, irritating, nettlesome, pesky,
pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing}; {nerve-racking, nerve-wracking,
stressful, trying ]
Syn: disagreeable.
[WordNet 1.5] -- Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. --
Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.
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Vexatious suit
(gcide) | Vexatious \Vex*a"tious\, a. [See Vexation.]
1. Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a
vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor. "Continual
vexatious wars." --South.
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2. Full of vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.
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He leads a vexatious life. --Sir K.
Digby.
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Vexatious suit (Law), a suit commenced for the purpose of
giving trouble, or without cause.
[1913 Webster] -- Vex*a"tious*ly, adv. --
Vex*a"tious*ness, n.
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Vexatiously
(gcide) | Vexatious \Vex*a"tious\, a. [See Vexation.]
1. Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a
vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor. "Continual
vexatious wars." --South.
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2. Full of vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.
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He leads a vexatious life. --Sir K.
Digby.
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Vexatious suit (Law), a suit commenced for the purpose of
giving trouble, or without cause.
[1913 Webster] -- Vex*a"tious*ly, adv. --
Vex*a"tious*ness, n.
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Vexatiousness
(gcide) | Vexatious \Vex*a"tious\, a. [See Vexation.]
1. Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a
vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor. "Continual
vexatious wars." --South.
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2. Full of vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.
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He leads a vexatious life. --Sir K.
Digby.
[1913 Webster]
Vexatious suit (Law), a suit commenced for the purpose of
giving trouble, or without cause.
[1913 Webster] -- Vex*a"tious*ly, adv. --
Vex*a"tious*ness, n.
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vexatious
(wn) | vexatious
adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying
rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is
particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it
galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating
delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito";
"swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety
catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him";
"a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you
are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling,
irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering,
pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing] |
vexatious litigation
(wn) | vexatious litigation
n 1: litigation shown to have been instituted maliciously and
without probable cause; "he got an injunction against
vexatious litigation by his enemies" |
vexatiously
(wn) | vexatiously
adv 1: in a vexatious manner |
VEXATIOUS SUITS
(bouvier) | VEXATIOUS SUITS, torts. A vexatictus suit is one which has been instituted
maliciously, and without probable cause, whereby a damage has ensued to the
defendant.
2. The suit is either a criminal prosecution, a conviction before a
magistrate, or a civil action. The suit need not be altogether without
foundation; if the part which is groundless has subjected the party to an
inconvenience, to which he would not have been exposed had the valid cause
of complaint alone have been insisted on, it is injurious. 4 Taunt. 616; 4
Rep. 14 1 Pet. C. C. Rep. 210; 4 Serg. & Rawle, 19, 23.
3. To make it vexatious, the suit must have been instituted
maliciously. As malice is not in any case of injurious conduct necessarily
to be inferred from the total absence of probable cause for exciting it, and
in the present instance the law will not allow it to be inferred from that
circumstance, for fear of being mistaken, it casts upon the suffering party
the onus of proving express malice. 2 Wils. R. 307; 2 Bos. & Pull. 129;
Carth. 417; but see what Gibbs, C. J., says in Berley v. Bethune, 5, Taunt.
583; see also 1 Pet. C. C. R. 210; 2 Browne's R. Appx. 42, 49; Add. R. 270.
4. It is necessary that the prosecution should have been carried on
without probable cause. The law presumes that probable cause existed until
the party aggrieved can show to the contrary. Hence he is bound to show the
total absence of probable cause. 5 Taunt. 580; 1 Campb. R. 199. See 3 Dow.
Rep. 160; 1 T. Rep. 520; Bul. N. P. 14; 4 Burr. 1974; 2 Bar. & C. 693; 4
Dow. & R. 107; 1 Car. R. 138, 204; 1 Gow, Rep. 20; 1 Wils. 232; Cro. Jac.
194. He is also under the same obligation when the original proceeding was a
civil action. 2 Wils. 307.
5. The damage which the party injured sustains from a vexatious suit
for a crime, is either to his person, his reputation, his estate or his
relative rights. 1. whenever imprisonment is occasioned by a malicious
unfounded criminal prosecution, the injury is complete, although the
detention may have been momentary, and the party released on bail. Carth.
416. 2. When the bill of indictment contains scandalous aspersions likely to
impair the reputation of the accused, the damage is complete. See 12 Mod.
210; 2 B. & A. 494; 3 Dow., & R. 669. 3. Notwithstanding his person is left
at liberty, and his character is unstained by the proceedings, (as where the
indictment is for a trespass, Carth. 416,) yet if he necessarily incurs
expense in defending himself against the charge, he has a right to have his
losses made good. 10 Mod. 148,; Id. 214; Gilb. 185; S. C. Str. 978. 4. If a
master loses the services and assistance of his domestics, in consequence of
a vexatious suit, he may claim a compensation. Ham. N. P. 275. With regard
to a damage resulting from a civil action, when prosecuted in a court of
competent jurisdiction, the only detriment the party can sustain, is the
imprisonment of his person, or the seizure of his property, for as to any
expense, he may be put to, this, in contemplation of law, has been fully
compensated to him by the costs adjudged. 4 Taunt. 7; 2 Mod. 306; 1 Mod. 4.
But where the original suit was coram non judice, the party as the law
formerly stood, necessarily incurred expense without the power of
remuneration, unless by this action, because any award of costs the court
might make would have been a nullity. However, by a late decision such an
adjudication was holden unimpeachable, land that the party might well have
an action of debt to recover the amount. 1 Wils. 316. So that the law, in
this respect, seems to have taken a new turn, and, perhaps, it would now be
decided, that no action can under any other circumstances but imprisonment
of the person or seizure of the property, be maintained for suing in an
improper court. Vide Carth. 189.
See, in general, Bac. Abr. Action on the case, H; Vin. Abr. Actions, H
c; Com. Dig. Action upon the case upon deceit; 5 Amer. Law Journ. 514; Yelv.
105, a note 2; Bull. N. P. 13; 3 Selw. N. P. 535; Notes on Co. Litt. 161, a,
(Day's edit.); 1 Saund. 230, n. 4; 3 Bl. Com. 126, n. 21, (Chit. edit.);
this Dict. tit. Malicious Prosecution.
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