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North Carolina stratagem en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (US) A legal tactic in court proceedings, intended to place the opponent on to the wrong foot by unethical use of court procedures
    • "They [judges] are awake to what is called the 'North Carolina stratagem', whereby an application is made, late on Friday with a thick pile of affidavits, to a judge unfamiliar with an area of law in the hope that the judge will grant the injunction sought out of caution".