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Home Dictionary Name: status quo antestatus quo ante
status quo ante [Latin, state in which previously] : the state of affairs that existed previously [rescind the contract and restore the parties to the status quo ante] ...
Status quo
Status quo, means condition or state of affairs as existing at that time should be maintained and the same should not be disturbed, Manju Kumari v. State of Bihar, (1966) 1 Pat LJR 363.Status quo, the existing state of things at any given date; e.g., Status quo ante bellum, the state of things before the war.According to the ordinary legal connotation, the term 'Status Quo' implies the existing state of things at any given point of time, Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1988 SC 127: (1988) 1 SCR 869.The situation that currently exists, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1420....
status quo
status quo [Latin, state in which] : the existing state of affairs ;specif : the last actual and uncontested state of affairs that preceded a controversy and that is to be preserved by preliminary injunction compare status quo ante ...
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