Lean
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Lean, means (1) to incline or tend in opinion or preference. A court is sometimes said to 'lean against' the position of one of the advocates before it, meaning that the court regards the advocate's position disfavorably; (2) to yield; to submit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 897.
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