Attentat

Quick meaning: Attentat is a noun meaning (law, obsolete) Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.

Meaning

(law, obsolete) Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.

More Meanings

1. (law, obsolete) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted by an inferior judge in a suit.
2. (obsolete) An attempted assault or assassination of a political figure; a politically motivated attempted assault.

Example Sentences

Their detestation of Popular Attentates, upon the Person or Authoritie of Princes.

All the several acts of one court day constitute, with reference to attentats, but one act, notwithstanding an appeal intermediate between those acts (h).

On the great day Ilitch made up his mind that the assassination should take place after all, and he gave orders for the disposition of the conspirators in the street. They were so naïve that it does not seem to have struck them as odd that he himself proposed to take no part in the attentat.

By the end of nineteenth century the attentat clause became a general exception in making of extradition treaties. The 1933 Montevideo Convention on Extradition by its Article 5 incorporated the exception in nature of attentat clause in the general protection against extradition, already made available to the political offenders under Article 3(2).

Word Forms

• attentats

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attent, appeall, attaintment, acise, reference, appeachment.

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