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Risk Note

both reasonable and signed, these risk notes have occasioned much litigation; see especially Great Western Ry. Co. v. McCarthy, (1887) 12

Pendente lite

Pendente lite (during litigation). Administration pendente lite is sometimes granted when an action is

Retainer

is called a special retainer, or in all matters of litigation in which such party may at any time be involved;

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Related witness and interested witness

or she derives some benefit from the result of a litigation; in the decree in a civil case, or in seeing

Reconvention

against a plaintiff in a former action; a cross-bill or litigation, Ibid. The act or process of making counterclaim, Black's Law

Proved to the satisfaction of the court

free will so as to put an end to the litigation pending between them in the court, C.K. Chandrahas Shetty v.

Prize Court

commission under the Great Seal, during war or until the litigations incident to war have been brought to a conclusion. It

Prescription

by depriving all claimants of every stale right and deferred litigation, now mainly governed by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act,

Post litem motam

are not admissible as a rule when made after the litigation has commenced, Stark. Evid., 4th Edn., 421.

Perpetuating testimony

jurisdiction emanates from the anxiety of equity to ward off litigation, where it may be oppressively exercised, by preserving the evidence

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