Contentious Business

Contentious business, the business of legal practitioners where there is a contest, as opposed to non-contentious business when there is no such contest; the latter term is most frequently used in connection with obtaining probate or administra-tion, but is also applied to business in the Chancery Division where there are no facts in dispute, and the aid of the Court is only invoked to determine some point of law or construction, or to direct trustees or executors in the discharge of their duty.