scandalous matter — n. Immoral or indecent content; in legal pleadings, content that is impertinent or highly irrelevant and therefore subject to being stricken as improper. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 … Law dictionary
scandalous matter — Within federal rule providing for striking scandalous matter from pleadings, scandalous matter is matter which improperly casts a derogatory light on someone, usually a party to the action, with respect to moral character or uses repulsive… … Black's law dictionary
scandalous — I adjective arrant, atrocious, base, black, condemnatory, corrupt, damnatory, dastardly, defamatory, denunciatory, deplorable, despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, disrespectable, execrable, facinorous, flagitious,… … Law dictionary
Money Don't Matter 2 Night — UK 7 single Single by Prince from the album Diamonds and Pearls … Wikipedia
surplusage — Extraneous, impertinent, superfluous, or unnecessary matter. Matter in any instrument which is unnecessary to its meaning and does not affect its validity; whatever is extraneous, impertinent, superfluous or unnecessary, and in procedure means… … Black's law dictionary
From Hell — Infobox graphic novel foreigntitle= imagesize= caption= From Hell collected edition. publisher=Eddie Campbell Comics Top Shelf Productions date=1999 (collected edition) series= pages=572 main char team= origpublication= Taboo origissues=10… … Wikipedia
Francis Langley — (1548 ndash; 1602) was a theatre builder and theatrical producer in Elizabethan era London. [William Ingram, A London Life in the Brazen Age: Francis Langley, 1548 ndash;1602 , Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1978.] After James Burbage… … Wikipedia
Pembroke's Men — The Earl of Pembroke s Men was an Elizabethan era playing company, or troupe of actors, in English Renaissance theatre. [E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923; Vol. 2, pp. 128 34.] They functioned under… … Wikipedia
comedy of manners — a comedy satirizing the manners and customs of a social class, esp. one dealing with the amorous intrigues of fashionable society. [1815 25] * * * Witty, ironic form of drama that satirizes the manners and fashions of a particular social class or … Universalium
manners, comedy of — ▪ narrative genre witty, cerebral form of dramatic comedy that depicts and often satirizes the manners and affectations of a contemporary society. A comedy of manners is concerned with social usage and the question of whether or not… … Universalium
