Surprise party
A surprise party is a party that is not made known beforehand to the person in whose honor it is being held.
A surprise attack by a person or people where the victim does not see the perpetrators coming.
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To change for the better by removing deficits, damage or faults.
A court may order a party to provide additional "particulars" to: define any issues; prevent surprise; enable the parties to get ready for trial; and facilitate a hearing.PartyA person by or against whom a legal action is brought.
In 1896 the banking world was really taken by surprise by the announcement that Barclay & Co. had absorbed, at one sitting, 15 other private banks and had become incorporated at the same time.
Where one man invades the possession of another, and by force or surprise turns him out of the occupation of lands: being a deprivation of that actual seisin, or corporal freehold of the lands, which the tenant before enjoyed. 2 Bl. Com 195; 5 Conn.
The name which is sometimes given to him who by flattery and artifice endeavors to surprise testators and induce them to give legacies or devices, or to make him some other gift.
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"Where a man lies in extremity, or being surprised with sickness, and not having an opportunity of making his own will; but lest he should die before he could make it, he gives with his own hands his goods to his friends about him: this, if he dies, ...
OBREPTION
civil law. Surprise. Dig. 3,5,8,1. Vide Surprise. ... more
OBSCENITY
crim. law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law, and the general corruption of morals. 2. The exhibition of... more ...
Factoring into such decisions include the nature of the assent, the possibility of unfair surprise, lack of notice, unequal bargaining power, and substantive unfairness.
Tell the robber about anything that might surprise him, such as someone who is expected to arrive soon.
If you have to move or reach, tell the robber what you are going to do and why.
In the lead up to a civil court case, the defendant and claimant must disclose or discover all the relevant evidence. There should be no surprise evidence at the trial.
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abscond
v. 1) traditionally to leave a jurisdiction (where the court, a process server or law enforcement can find one) to avoid being served with legal papers or being arrested. 2) a surprise leaving with funds or goods that have been stolen, ...
Such exchanges of documents can lead to settlement, minimize surprises at trial and keep one side from hiding material, thus preventing the other from being able to introduce relevant material at trial.
 See also: Law, Person, State, Right, Will
  
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