empty chair

  • 1empty chair doctrine — Under this doctrine, a trial justice may charge a jury that it may infer from litigant s unexplained failure to produce an available witness who would be expected to give material testimony in litigant s behalf that witness, had he occupied empty …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 2empty chair doctrine — Under this doctrine, a trial justice may charge a jury that it may infer from litigant s unexplained failure to produce an available witness who would be expected to give material testimony in litigant s behalf that witness, had he occupied empty …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 3empty chair — noun A chair which is used to personify the clients object of conflict …

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  • 4The Empty Chair — Infobox Book name = The Empty Chair title orig = translator = image caption = author = Jeffery Deaver illustrator = cover artist = country = language = English series = Lincoln Ryhme series subject = genre = crime publisher = Coronet pub date =… …

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  • 5Empty Chair Crisis —   The 1965 dispute between France and the other Member States, primarily over the extension of supranational authority, which was resolved by the Luxembourg Compromise …

    Glossary of the European Union and European Communities

  • 6empty — adj 1 Empty, vacant, blank, void, vacuous mean lacking the contents that could or should be present. Something is empty which has nothing in it; something is vacant which is without an occupant, incumbent, tenant, inmate, or the person or thing… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 7chair — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 piece of furniture ⇨ See also ↑armchair ADJECTIVE ▪ comfortable, comfy (informal), cushioned, padded, plush, soft, upholstered …

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  • 8empty — emp|ty1 W2S2 [ˈempti] adj comparative emptier superlative emptiest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(container)¦ 2¦(place)¦ 3¦(not used)¦ 4¦(person/life)¦ 5 empty words/gestures/promises etc 6 do something on an empty stomach 7 empty nest …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 9empty — emptiable, adj. emptier, n. emptily, adv. emptiness, n. /emp tee/, adj., emptier, emptiest, v., emptied, emptying, n., pl. empties. adj. 1. containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle. 2. vacant; unocc …

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  • 10empty — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} verb 1 make sth empty ADVERB ▪ completely ▪ The cupboards had all been completely emptied. ▪ out ▪ We emptied out the tank. PREPOSITION …

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