The phrase "defeated a claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or argumentative contexts where one party successfully counters or disproves another's assertion or allegation.
Example: "The lawyer presented compelling evidence that ultimately defeated the claim of negligence against her client."
Alternatives: "refuted a claim" or "disproved a claim."
A defense lawyer who defeated a claim would be entitled to no compensation because lawyers would be permitted to receive only a maximum of 20percentt of any award or settlement.
Somali and international officials may have declared that al Shabab had been defeated, a claim repeated by journalists, but that appears very much hollow and premature.
He specialized in defending Tories and British subjects, as in Rutgers v. Waddington, in which he defeated a claim for damages done to a brewery by the Englishmen who held it during the military occupation of New York.
And such alterations defeat a claim of design defect.
Even if the agreement is not enforceable, its presence may defeat a claim of innocent infringement by the user.
"The fact that the owner paid all the property taxes during that time period will not be enough to defeat a claim of adverse possession," Mr. Ferrara said.
To defeat a claim of fair use, the copyright holder must point to market harm that results because the secondary use serves as a substitute for the original work.
MFIA is working with the New York Times in an ongoing action seeking to enforce the constitutional right of access to New York state administrative proceedings involving disciplinary hearings of a corrections officer, and to defeat a claim that state law otherwise requires the proceedings to be closed.
The Court of Appeals here holds that to defeat a claim of good faith, a transferee must know at least some fact that would put the transferee on guard that the debtor was trying to use the transaction to cheat creditors.
Because the complainant likely knew less than the defendant about what the defendant was thinking, or might have thought, had the situation been different, the new standard placed the defendant in a strong position to defeat a claim.
"While there are extremely strong legal arguments for why we could defeat a claim, and while the Cambodian law is ambiguous at best, in this circumstance it seems appropriate and in keeping with the positive relationship the Norton Simon has had with Cambodia over the years to gift the statue to them," said Luis Li, an attorney for the museum.
