Skip to content

Contest - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

perfected

such procedure at a later date or that are not the subject of such procedure [settling a priority contest between the two security interests]

Cockfight

A match or contest of gamecocks

not guilty

not guilty 1 : a plea by a criminal defendant who intends to contest the charges compare guilty, nolo contendere NOTE: Under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, if a defendant refuses

Keep your definitions linked to case research

nolo contendere

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

natural object

the estate, and who may be so recognized in the absence of a will or in a will contest usually used in the phrase natural object of one's bounty [widows and children, who, as the natural objects

Litigation

The act or process of litigating a suit at law a judicial contest

contestant

contestant : one that initiates or participates in a contest

administrator

sole purpose of being responsible for the assets in an estate usually in some emergency (as a will contest) compare general administrator in this entry 2 : a person that administers ;esp often cap : the head

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

issuable

issuable 1 : open to contest, debate, or litigation [an fact] ;also : made on the merits and subject to dispute [an plea] [an

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial