Adversary

adversarial

adversarial : of, relating to, or characteristic of an adversary or adversary procedures : adversary ...

adversary process the method courts use to resolve disputes. Through the adversary process, each side in a dispute has the right to present its case as persuasively as possible, subject to the rules of evidence, and an independent fact finder, either judge or jury, decides in favor of one side or the other. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...

adversary : one that contends with or opposes another ;esp : any of the opposing parties in a legal action adj : of, relating to, or involving opposing parties or interests ;specif : of, relating to, or involving a system of justice in which opposing parties usually represented by counsel present evidence to an impartial decision-maker (as a jury) by a process of questioning witnesses under the supervision of a judge compare accusatorial, inquisitorial ...

adversary proceeding

adversary proceeding A lawsuit arising in or related to a bankruptcy case that is commenced by filing a complaint with the court. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...

Adversary system

Adversary system, means a procedural system, such as the Anglo-American Legal System, involving active and unhindered parties contesting with each other to put forth a case before an independent decision-maker, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 53....

Decisive oath

Decisive oath [sacramentum decisionis, Lat.], in the Civil Law, where one of the parties to a suit, not being able to prove his charge, offered to refer the decision of the cause to the oath of his adversary; which the adversary was bound to accept, or tender the same proposal back again, otherwise the whole was taken as confessed by him, Cod, 4, 1, 12...

accusatorial

accusatorial : of, relating to, or being a form of criminal prosecution in which a person is accused of a crime and is tried in public by a judge who is not also the prosecutor compare adversary, inquisitorial ac·cus·a·to·ri·al·ly adv ...

alternative dispute resolution (adr)

alternative dispute resolution (adr) Methods of resolving legal disputes without going to trial, in a less adversarial manner, such as through arbitration or mediation. ...

attach

attach [Anglo-French attacher to lodge (an action in court), seize (a person or property) by legal authority, from Old French atachier to fasten, fix, alteration of estachier, from estache stake] vt 1 : to obtain a court order against (property of another person) that directs an officer of the court (as a sheriff) to seize or take control of the property compare garnish, levy NOTE: A plaintiff may attach a defendant's property as a way of obtaining jurisdiction for the purpose of bringing a lawsuit or to prevent the defendant from getting rid of property that may be needed to pay a judgment to the plaintiff. 2 : to join or make a part of [affidavits ed to the suit "Rosalind Resnick"] 3 : to create a security interest in (property) and so acquire the right to foreclose on or otherwise deal with property for payment of a debt and to exercise one's rights in the property against third parties see also security interest at interest compare perfect vi : to become effective: as a : ...

contested matter

contested matter Those matters, other than objections to claims, that are disputed but are not within the definition of an "adversary proceeding". Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...

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