challenge : Idioms & Phrases


Challenge to the array

  • (Law), an exception to the whole panel.
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Challenge to the favor

  • the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it.
Webster 1913

Challenge to the polls

  • an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned.
Webster 1913

developmentally challenged

  • noun people collectively who are mentally retarded
    retarded; mentally retarded.
    • he started a school for the retarded
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Peremptory challenge

  • a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause.
Webster 1913

Principal challenge

  • that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true.
Webster 1913

To challenge the array

  • (Law), to except to the whole panel. Cowell. Tomlins. Blount.
Webster 1913

To challenge to the array, favor, polls

  • . See under Challenge, n.
Webster 1913

visually challenged

  • adjective satellite having greatly reduced vision
    dim-sighted; visually impaired; sand-blind; purblind; near-blind.
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