Meridies
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Noon. practice and matters resting in the diaoietion of the court.
4 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 839! Id. 432; 2 Daly (N. Y.) 208.
A cause of action or defense on the merits is one resting on matters of substance, not on form or technicality.
See 12 Wis. 588.
A judgment on the merits is one decisive of some strictly legal right of the party.
12 Minn. 357; 26 S. C. 119.