{"id":365349,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/stand.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"stand","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/stand.html","title":{"rendered":"Stand"},"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\">vb<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>stood<\/b><br \/>  <b>stand&#183;ing<\/b><br \/>  <i>vi<\/i><br \/>  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to be in a particular state or situation &#91; accused&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to remain valid or effective &#91;let the ruling &#93; <br \/>  <i>vt<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to submit to &#91; trial&#93; <br \/>  <b><br \/>  <b>stand in judgment<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to submit to the judgment of the court <br \/>  <\/b><br \/>  <b><br \/>  <b>stand in the shoes of<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to assume the rights or obligations of <br \/>  <\/b><br \/>  <b><br \/>  <b>stand mute<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to be effectively silent: as <br \/>  <b>a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to exercise the privilege against self-incrimination (as in a trial) <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to raise no objections &#91;the prosecution agreed to <i>stand mute<\/i> at the sentencing&#93; <br \/>  <\/b><br \/>  <b><br \/>  <b>stand on<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to depend on esp. as the basis of an argument or claim &#91;a party who <i>stands on<\/i> the writing as a complete and exclusive embodiment of the contract &#8220;J. J. White and R. S. Summers&#8221;&#93; <br \/>  <\/b><br \/> n  <b>:<\/b> the place taken by a witness for testifying in court &#91;take the &#93; compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/bar.html\">bar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/bench.html\">bench<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/dock.html\">dock<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/sidebar.html\">sidebar<\/a> <\/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;Stand&#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-365349","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/365349","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=365349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=365349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}