Demurer
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Demurrer.
L. Fr. To rest or stay; to abide; to demur. Demurt en abeyance; it rests or remains in abeyance. Litt. sect.
649.
Demurrions en vos discretions; we rest upon your discretions.
Year book, 1 Edw. II. 8.
Parol demurrer was a plea that the pleadings, (parol) should stay or be suspended during the infancy of a party.
See Parol demurrer.