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Controversially

In a controversial manner

Polemical

Polemic controversial disputatious

Debatement

Controversy deliberation debate

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Disceptation

Controversy disputation discussion

Judgment

Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use...

Decree

Decree [fr. decretum, Lat.], an edict, a law. The term was also used for the judgment of a Court of Equity. But by the (English) Judicature Acts, 1873 and 1875, the expression judgment, which was formerly...

Judicial power

constituted in Chapter IV in Part V, 'the Supreme Court of India' must of necessity have to decide controversies between citizen and the citizen, citizen and the State or the States inter se, whether the rights relate

Dispute

Dispute, The meaning of the word 'dispute' is, 'a controversy having both positive and negative aspects. It postulates the assertion of a claim by one party and its denial by the other', Canara Bank v. National...

Any case which has been decided

Any case which has been decided, means each decision which terminates a part of the controversy involving the question of jurisdiction. Where the court below adjudicates the question that suit has abated against one of the...

Amendment

Amendment, a correction of any errors in the writ or pleadings in actions, suits, or prosecutions. The power of allowing amendments has been much extended by modern statutes and rules, but it will not be exercised...

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