Contend - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: contendContender
One who contends a contestant...
Combatant
Contending disposed to contend...
Compete
To contend emulously to seek or strive for the same thing position or reward for which another is striving to contend in rivalry as for a prize or in business as tradesmen compete with one another...
Known sources of income
Known sources of income, the expression 'known sources of income' must have reference to sources known to the prosecution on a thorough investigation of the case. It was not, and it could not be, contended that 'known sources of income' means sources known to the accused. Affairs of the accused are matters specially within the knowledge of the accused; within the meaning of s. 106 of the Evidence Act, C.S.D. Swami v. State, AIR 1960 SC 7: (1960) 1 SCR 461. [Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, s. 5(3)]The expression 'known sources of incomes' means 'sources known to the prosecution'. So also, the same meaning must be given to the words 'for which the public servant cannot satisfactorily account' occurring in s. 5(1)(e), State of Maharashtra v. Wasudeo Ramchandra Kaidalwar, AIR 1981 SC 1186; (1981) 3 SCC 199: (1981) 3 SCR 675.The expression 'known sources of income' has reference to sources known to the prosecution after thorough investigation of the case. It is not, and cannot be conten...
adversary
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 ...
inter alia
inter alia [Latin] : among other things [contends inter alia, that the claim is moot] ...
nolo contendere
nolo contendere [Latin, I do not wish to contend] : a plea by a defendant in a criminal prosecution that without admitting guilt subjects the defendant to conviction as in the case of a guilty plea but that does not bar denial of the truth of the charges in another proceeding (as a civil action based on the same acts) called also no contest non vult contendere compare guilty, not guilty ...
non vult contendere
non vult contendere [Latin, he or she does not wish to contend] : nolo contendere called also non vult ...
Champion
One who engages in any contest especially one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of anothers honor or rights or one who now acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause a defender an advocate a hero...
Chartism
The principles of a political party in England 1838 48 which contended for universal suffrage the vote by ballot annual parliaments equal electoral districts and other radical reforms as set forth in a document called the Peoples Charter...
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