{"id":361516,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/ground.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"ground","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/ground.html","title":{"rendered":"Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the foundation or basis on which knowledge, belief, or conviction rests <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a premise, reason, or collection of data upon which something (as a legal action or argument) relies for validity &#91;sued the city on the that the city&#8230;had wrongfully released&#8230;records &#8220;<i>City of Lawton v. Moore<\/i>, 868 P.2d 690 (1993)&#8221;&#93; &#91;listed adultery and alcoholism as the <i>s<\/i> for divorce&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a piece or parcel of land &#91;the design being to create high for use during overflow periods &#8220;<i>Bright v. Perkins<\/i>, 239 S.W.2d 281 (1951)&#8221;&#93; &#91;a sudden disruption of a piece of from one man&#8217;s land &#8220;<i>Porter v. Arkansas Western Gas Co.<\/i>, 482 S.W.2d 598 (1972)&#8221;&#93; <br \/>  <b><i>  ground&#183;less   <i>adj<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><br \/>  <b><i>  ground&#183;less&#183;ly   <i>adv<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><br \/>  <b><i>  ground&#183;less&#183;ness   <i>n<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><br \/> vt  <b>:<\/b> to furnish a ground for <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> set on a basis &#91;that court <i>ed<\/i> the disclosure requirement in negligence law &#8220;<i>Scott v. Bradford<\/i>, 606 P.2d 554 (1979)&#8221;&#93; &#91;an argument <i>ed<\/i> on erroneous assumptions&#93; <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Ground&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-361516","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/361516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=361516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}