| 单词 |
versus |
| 释义 |
‖ versus, prep.|ˈvɜːsəs|
[L.]
Against; employed in Law to denote an action by one party against another. Also transf. Freq. abbrev. v. (also ver., vs.).
1447–8J. Shillingford Lett. (Camden) 53 Also the jugement by twene..John Husset versus John Notte. 1451Paston Lett. I. 221, I send yow the scire facias for Osbern and Foke versus Heydon and Wyndam. 1621Debates Ho. Lords (Camden) 26 Suyt per Fowles in the Starr-chamber versus Lake and others. 1744J. Comyns Reports of Cases 634 Wallis ver. Pain and Underhill. 1774J. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 19, I am engaged in a famous case,—the cause of King, of Scarborough, versus the mob that broke into his house. 1822Scott Peveril Pref. Ep., She may sue me for damages, as in the case Dido versus Virgil. 1839De Quincey Casuistry Rom. Meals Wks. 1890 VII. 22 Generally such a person is ‘rather yellow, rather yellow’ (to quote Canning versus Lord Durham). 1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. ii. 38 The old battle-ground of free will versus necessity. 1894Outing Feb. 397/2 The Rambler vs. the Lumberman; an indictment for the larceny of a path. |
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