ex parte [Medieval Latin, on behalf (of)] : on behalf of or involving only one party to a legal matter and in the absence of and usually without notice to the other party [an ex parte motion] [relief granted ex parte] used in citations to indicate the party seeking judicial relief in a case [Ex Parte Jones, 7 U.S. 2 (1866)] compare in re, inter partes ...
Upon or from one side only one sided partial as an ex parte statement...
Ex parte [Latin from the Part], on or from one party only, usu. without notice to or argument from the adverse party, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Ex parte talis, a writ that lay for a bailiff or receiver, who, having auditors appointed to take his accounts, cannot obtain of them reasonable allowance, but is case into prison.-Fitz. N.B. 129....
Obtained, The word 'obtained' would indicate achievement by exertion in spite of opposition. Hence a dissolution of marriage obtained through the coercive process of civil court would be covered. The word 'obtained' may well be used in the sense of 'procured with effort and would certainly describe correctly a situation where something is achieved by a person through his exertion in spite of opposition from others. According to Webster, again, the word' obtain 'signifies: (a) to gain or attain possession or disposal of, usually by some planned action or method. (b) to bring about or call into being, etc., Mst. Zohara Khatoon v. Mohd. Ibrahim, AIR 1981 SC 1243 (1252): (1981) 2 SCC 509: (1981) 2 SCR 910. [Criminal PC, (2 of 1974), s. 125(1)]...
office 1 : a special duty, charge, or position conferred by governmental authority and for a public purpose [qualified to hold public ] ;broadly : a special duty or position of authority [hold an of trust] 2 : a place where business or administration is conducted or services are performed 3 : a special administrative department or unit [ of the district attorney] ...
That which a person does either voluntarily or by appointment for or with reference to others customary duty or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man as kind offices pious offices...
Office, an employment, either judicial, municipal (see CORPORATE OFFICE), civil, military, or ecclesiastical.As to obtaining offices by desert only, the repealed 12 Ric. 2, c. 2, enacted that--The Chancellor, Treasurer, . . . the Justices of the one bench and the other, Barons of the Exchequer and all other that shall be called to ordain, name, or make justices of the peace, sheriffs, . . . or any other officer or minister of the King shall be firmly sworn that they shall not ordain name, or make justice of peace, sheriff . . . nor other officer or minister of the King for any gift or brocage, favour or affection: nor that none that pursueth by him or by other privily or openly to be in any manner of office shall be put in the same office or in any other; but that they make all such officers and ministers of the best and most lawful men, and sufficient to their estimation and knowledge.Officia magistratus non debent esse venalia, (The offices of a magistrate ought not to be saleable.)L...
office action A letter from a trademark examining attorney from the USPTO, setting forth the legal status of a trademark application. There are several types of Office actions: examiner's amendments, priority actions, non-final Office actions, final Office actions, and suspension inquiry letters. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
A person who holds an office an officeholder...