If a cause of action in a complaint does not state a cognizable claim ( e. g., the claim is nonsense ) or if it does not state all the required elements, then the challenged cause of action or possibly the entire complaint can be " thrown out " with a demurrer as not legally sufficient.

If the judge " overrules " a demurrer, the court is allowing the claim or case to proceed.

If the demurrer is granted without prejudice, sometimes termed " leave to amend ", the plaintiff may correct errors filing a corrected, amended complaint.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If not, it is said to be overruled or ruled not well-taken.

If these laws or any other work of authority can be proved on any point to be at variance with a single passage of the Veda, their authority is at once overruled.

If it started grimly, 1772 ended with " the news that the Privy Council had overruled Lord Hillsborough and approved Vandalia.

( If Rogers and Bell owned their interests directly, either Rogers or Bell could be overruled by its competitor in combination with Tanenbaum.

If there are no objections or all objections are overruled, the presiding officer declares the result of the vote and states who is elected President and Vice President.

If the defendant files an appeal arguing that he should not have to pay any money, then the plaintiff might file a cross-appeal arguing that the defendant should have to pay $ 200, 000 instead of $ 50, 000.

If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

If the defendant pleads guilty, an evidentiary hearing usually follows.

If the defendant pleads not guilty, a date is set for a preliminary hearing or a trial.

If no excuse can be found or produced, the silence of the books is an authority against the defendant, and the plaintiff must have judgment.

If the defendant moves for a mistrial, there is no bar to retrial, unless the prosecutor acted in " bad faith ," i. e. goaded the defendant into moving for a mistrial because the government specifically wanted a mistrial.

If a defendant could not reasonably have foreseen that someone might be hurt by their actions, there may be no liability.

If Parliament is not in session, then the trial is conducted by a " Court of the Lord High Steward " instead of the House of Lords ( even if the defendant is not a peer ).

If there is no charge for which a two-thirds majority of the senators present vote " guilty ", the defendant is acquitted and no punishment is imposed.

If the plaintiff brings onlyclaims which are equitable, but the defendant asserts counterclaims which are of law, then the court will grant a trial by jury.

If the defendant waives a jury trial, a bench trial is held.

If the defendant asserts his right to remain silent all interrogation must immediately stop and the police may not resume the interrogation unless the police have " scrupulously honored " the defendant ’ s assertion and obtain a valid waiver before resuming the interrogation.

If the defendant does reinitiate contact, a valid waiver must be obtained before interrogation may resume.

If the defendant meets the procedural requirement, the motion will normally be considered by the judge outside the presence of the jury.

# Before any custodial interrogation began did the government agents properly advise the defendant of her Miranda rights? If “ Yes ” go to 6 ; If “ No ”, go to 18 ..

# Did the defendant waive her rights? If “ Yes ” go to 7 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.

# Did the defendant assert either or both of her rights? If “ Yes ” go to 10 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.

# Did the defendant assert her right to remain silent? f “ Yes ” go to 11 ; If “ No ”, go to 13.

# Did the defendant assert her right to counsel? If “ Yes ” go to 14 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.