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cause

cause of cruel and inhuman treatment "Case & Comment"] b : case [questions of law…determinative of the then pending "R. T. Gerwatowski"] 4 in the civil law of Louisiana : the reason for making a contract compare

case

case 1 : a representative case whose outcome will serve as precedent for future cases and esp. for pending cases involving similar or related issues or circumstances and often some of the same parties NOTE: A test

asylum state

asylum state : a state that is holding a fugitive from justice from another state pending extradition

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administrator

administrator appointed in some states for the sole purpose of being responsible for the assets in an estate pending settlement of a dispute or when there is doubt as to who should be appointed administrator special administrator

preserve

or destruction [expenses necessary to the property] 2 a : to keep valid, intact, or in existence (as pending a proceeding) [the right of a trial by jury shall be preserved "U.S. Constitution amend. VII"] [the dismissal

pro tanto

a certain extent [the obligation is pro tanto discharged "Uniform Commercial Code"] [entered into a pro tanto release pending the appeal]

Commitment

v. Plant, 1901 (1) KB 31); see ATTACH-MENT, and R.S.C. Ord. XLIV.; and (2) the sending to prison, pending his trial at Assizes or Quarte, Sessions, by justices of the peace, under the (English) Indictable Offences Act,

Attentates

Attentates, proceedings in a Court of judicature, pending suit, and after an inhibition is decreed and gone out. Those things which are done after an extra-judicial

Claim if at all

was making application under section 144 which was prior to the Act, which would be deemed to be pending when the Act came into the force, Probodh Chandra Ghosh v. Urmila Dassi, (2000) 6 SCC 526.

Citatio ad reassumendam causam

Citatio ad reassumendam causam, a citation which issued when a party died pending a suit, against his heir, to revive the cause.

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