{"id":364224,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/protest.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"protest","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/protest.html","title":{"rendered":"Protest"},"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> a solemn declaration of opinion and usually of disagreement: as <br \/>  <b>a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a solemn written declaration by a notary public or U.S. consul on behalf of the holder of an instrument (as a note) announcing dishonor and declaring the liability of all parties to the instrument for any loss or damage arising from such action <br \/>  <i>;also<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> the action of making or causing to be made such a declaration with due service of notice of dishonor <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a declaration made by the master of a ship before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer upon arrival in port after a disaster declaring that any loss was not the fault of the crew but due to the disaster <br \/>  <b>c<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a declaration made by a party esp. before or while paying a tax or performing a demanded act by which the declarer asserts that the justice or legality of the tax or act is disputed and that compliance is not voluntary <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the act of objecting or a gesture of disapproval <br \/>  <i>;esp<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a usually organized public demonstration of disapproval <br \/>  <b><i>  protest   <i>vb<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><br \/>  <b><br \/>  <b>under protest<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> with noted objections (as of insufficient payment) and claims &#91;cashed a check <i>under protest<\/i>&#93; <br \/>  <\/b><\/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;Protest&#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-364224","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/364224","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=364224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=364224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}