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Contentious business
Contentious business, the business of legal practitioners where there is a contest, as opposed to non-contentious business when there is no such contest; the latter term is most frequently used
nolo contendere
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
Neutrality
The state or quality of being neutral the condition of being unengaged in contests between others state of taking no part on either side indifference
Colony
colony, are ipso facto in force in such a colony, for there can be no existing laws to contest the superiority; and besides, the occupants could not have any power to establish laws independently of the mother-country,
Collusion
a concerted performance of a fabula disguised as a judicium - an unreal and fictitious pretence of a contest by confederates whose game is the same. As stated by Lord Selborne, L.C. in Boswell v. Coaks, (1894)
Heard and finally decided
court has exercised its judicial mind and has after argument and consideration come to a decision on a contested matter. It is essential that it should have been heard and finally decided, Pandurang Ramchandra Mandlik v. Shantabai
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
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