A general demurrer attacks the general substance of an indictment or plea; a special demurrer attacks its structure or form or one specific part of it.
In criminal law a demurrer is usually based upon some defect in an indictment or the claim that the facts presented do not constitute a felony or other serious crime.
A ruling on a demurrer can result in the quick disposition of a case resting on the point of law challenged in the demurrer.
Shortly before the newspaper strike, Brooks Atkinson asked the question of whether N. Y. is becoming uninhabitable, in his column in the Times and went on to answer it in the affirmative, whereupon Van Vechten wrote a spirited demurrer, also printed in the column, in which he noted that he hadn't set foot outside the city since '49 and was glad he hadn't.
That drew an unusually sharp demurrer from the White House, where a spokesman, Sean McCormack, insisted: "The president said no such thing".
But this demurrer is belied by his demand for a law detailing precisely how accountability must work.
It is, as they say, an interjection of what can be described as the demure demurrer, as it were — a self-interruption to apologize beforehand or just afterward for daring to use a declaratory sentence, a cliché, a colorful figure of speech or, pardon the expression, slang.
A comment on the way his mind responds to such documents prompts a gently insistent demurrer.
Of course it's a show about minorities and racism, despite the writer Joe Lawson's demurrer that it's really about people struggling to acclimate, "something everybody deals with...whether you're a minority or not".
Demurrer, in law, a process whereby a party hypothetically admits as true certain facts alleged by the opposition but asserts that they are not sufficient grounds for relief, or redress.
