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“The burden of proof lies with the party contesting the will, meaning they must demonstrate that the will is invalid based on the grounds presented.”
From MarketWatch β Nov. 5, 2026
Two months later, pointing to the Moreno Valley decision, the city deemed the development agreement invalid and demanded its money back.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 23, 2026
As Mr. Mackintosh suggests, the required serial short-term borrowing means that considering current short-term against long-term rates is an invalid cost comparison.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 14, 2026
A three-judge bench ruled that the pardon granted by then president Maithripala Sirisena in May 2019 was "arbitrary and invalid".
From Barron's β Sep. 10, 2026
Really, Mrs Benn, afterwards, well, his lordship was virtually an invalid.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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If you are one of those who don't need Vegemite medicinally, the thousands of invalids and babies are asking you to deny yourself of it for the time being.
From Salon β Jul. 10, 2023
Patient outcomes varied depending on whether you asked the officer who lost fighters, the ferryman who shuttled the sick, the doctor who treated invalids or the adjutant who buried bodies.
From Scientific American β Jul. 23, 2022
Pandemics, mansions, triangles, illnesses, abandonments, deaths, letters and inheritances also kaleidoscopically reappear, as do grandfathers, lovers, invalids, caretakers, utopians and more.
From New York Times β Jan. 7, 2022
Wealthy invalids flocked to the south Devon town for its sunshine and sea air.
From The Guardian β Feb. 15, 2021
I keep telling her there’s not a dam thing in that aspirin except flour and water for imaginary invalids.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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Getting invalided out of the 2017 Lions tour caused him untold angst.
From BBC β Mar. 27, 2023
Last August, the U.S. military’s top appeals court upheld Bergdahl’s conviction, rejecting arguments that public comments by Trump and McCain should have invalided his prosecution, Military.com reported.
From Fox News β Feb. 18, 2021
He knows that the old songs give “the invalided and senile a musical opportunity to re-court their wives, re-raise their children and re-fight their wars.”
From New York Times β Sep. 21, 2017
Soon he was back in the trenches, but then invalided home where he got classified B-1, “fit for garrison service abroad”.
From The Guardian β Nov. 28, 2016
It was finally decided that Major Falkins could only complete his recovery, if at all, in a more temperate climate, and so he was invalided back to the States.
From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck
There he called on Senator James A. .Reed of Missouri, who is invaliding from a recent illness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But he was of those who do not take kindly to invaliding.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey
That evening Dr Thompson made the captain’s punch, having carefully locked up in his largest tea-chest his invaliding suit.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
Invalided to India 50 As above, includes instances of invaliding more than one as separate items.
From With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916β1917 by Anonymous
The aspirant for invaliding sat himself down again at one end of the table, as the captains did at the other.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
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