afterconduct

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afterconduct (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of after-conduct
    • 1935, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters:
      The career of Mark Antony before he knew Cleopatra makes his afterconduct about the last thing anyone would predict, for if ever one had training in the maintenance of an amatory life as a side issue to a career, it was this very man.
    • 1961, Corpus Juris Secundum: A Complete Restatement of the Entire American Law as Developed by All Reported Cases:
      It has been held that insanity arising during the progress of a difiiculty voluntarily brought on by accused and as the result of a blow rightfully inflicted by his adversary does not exempt the party from responsibility for his afterconduct in such difficulty;
    • 1963, Excerpta Criminologica, page 518:
      These, in turn, suggested the importance of tracing the afterconduct of the 500 delinquents and 500 nondelinquents first examined in Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency -- a study still to be reported on.