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merit definition - legal

n

  1. The substantive elements of a claim or defense.
  2. The validity of a claim or defense (as in “the defense of impossibility is without merit”).
on the merits
Description of adjudication of a matter on its substantive elements, not on procedural or technical grounds.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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