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A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge. Burrill. Bouvier.

The demandant in a common recovery after judgment. Wharton.

The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more Milton.

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. That never yet refused your hest. Chaucer.

To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.

transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.

d Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. Robertson. This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. Addison.

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. Shak.

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property. Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him Shak. By nature did what was by law required. Dryden.

The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority. Specifically: (a) (International Law)

Expressing or implying demand. [R.] Harris.

Sought for; demanded. [R.] Summary on Du Bartas (1621).

To reclaim; to demand the restoration of. [R.] Vattel (Trans. ).

To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back. Mitford.

The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.

To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; - - with on.

Opportunity of selling; demand; market. They shall have ready sale for them. Spenser.

in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands. The mind having a power to suspend the execution and satisfaction of any of its desires. Locke.

To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requitte; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.