11.   As slaves grew whiter and whiter, lawmakers scrambled for legal definitions to distinguish black from white.

12.   A special committee has since recommended that judges instruct jurors not to ask for or accept legal definitions from lawyers serving on the jury.

13.   Already, however, the canal authority has expanded the legal definition of the watershed, giving it power to take water.

14.   But after four hours of deliberation, jurors came back into the courtroom and asked the judge for the legal definition of comfort.

15.   But for a time they do not fit the legal definition of death, the total halting of brain function.

16.   Defense attorneys face obstacles in bringing most insanity pleas to trial, grappling with a public often skeptical of mental illness claims and a narrow legal definition of insanity.

17.   Fiscal errors can be dismissed as due to poor judgment, inadvertent miscalculations or murky legal definitions.

18.   Friday, City Council Speaker Peter Vallone announced that the council was preparing to delete the exclusion of minors from the legal definition.

19.   He steadfastly clung to narrow legal definitions to bolster his claim that he did not lie in earlier sworn testimony about the affair.

20.   If it meets that legal definition, is it an impeachable crime?