Suits Pending - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: suits pending Page: 2Prohibitio de vasto, directa parti
Prohibitio de vasto, directa parti, a judicial writ which used to be addressed to a tenant, prohibiting him from waste, pending suit, Reg. Jud. 21; Moor, 917....
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....
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 appeal may be styled Attentates, Ayliffe...
pendent
pendent [Middle French pendant suspended, present participle of pendre to hang, ultimately from Latin pendēre] 1 : remaining undetermined : pending [a suit] 2 : of, relating to, or being the basis of pendent jurisdiction or pendent party jurisdiction [the Supreme Court drew a sharp distinction between claims and parties "National Law Journal"] 3 : dependent [is upon another claim] ...
Pending
Pending, For detailed discussion of the term 'pend-ing', see S.D. Saigal v. Vidya Vijan, AIR 1978 All 82.The word 'pending' will ordinarily mean that the matter is not concluded and the court which has cognizance of it can make an order on the matter in issue. The test is whether any proceedings can be taken in the cause before the court or tribunal where it is said to be pending. The answer is that until the case is concluded it is pending, Lt. Col. S.K. Kashyap v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1971 SC 1120 (1128): (1971) 2 SCC 126: (1971) 3 SCR 881. [Army Act, 1950, s. 126]A legal proceeding is 'pending' as soon as commenced and until it is concluded, i.e., so long as the Court having original cognizance of it can make an order on the matters in issue, or to be dealt with, therein, Asgarali Nasarali Singparewala v. State of Bombay, AIR 1957 SC 503 (509). [Criminal Law Amendment Act (46 of 1952), s. 10]Pending, in regard to suits or proceedings for ejectments mean pending before a decree wa...
Before the institution of any suit with respect to.... of it
Before the institution of any suit with respect to.... of it, 'Before the institution of any suit with respect to the subject-matter of the agreement or any part of it' mean while no suit with respect to the subject-matter of the agreement or any part of it is pending, Ramvallabh Tibrewalla v. Dwarka Das & Co., AIR 1966 SC 402: (1966) 1 SCR 689. (Arbitration Act, 1940, s. 20)...
pending
pending 1 : during the time of 2 : while awaiting : in the time preceding [held in escrow the outcome of the suit] [free trial] ...
intervention
intervention : the act or an instance of intervening ;specif : the act or procedure by which a third party becomes a party to a pending proceeding between other parties in order to protect his or her own interest in the subject matter of the suit compare impleader, interpleader, joinder NOTE: Intervention developed as a procedure in equity courts. There is some overlap between joinder and intervention because of the merger of law and equity in federal practice. intervention of right : intervention allowed in federal civil procedure when a statute grants an absolute right to intervene or when the applicant claims an interest in the subject of the proceeding that the applicant may be impeded from protecting by the disposition of the proceeding NOTE: Intervention of right will not be granted if the court considers that the applicant's interest is already adequately represented. permissive intervention : intervention allowed in federal civil procedure when a statute grants a condi...
Carucate
Carucate [fr. Carucata terr'], Carvage,or Carve of land, a plough-land of 100 acres, or according to Skene, as much land as may be tilled in a year and a day by one plough, Ken. Glos. 'And one plow land, carucata terr', or a hide of land, hida terr' (which is all one), is not of any certain content, but as much as a plow can by course of husbandry plough in a year.'-Co. Litt. 69 a. This quantity varies in different counties from 60 to 120 acres.Case, includes a suit or any proceeding before a court. [Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987), s. 2(1)(a)]Means--(1) A trial. (2) A trial involving some point of law so important as to be published in Law Reports (see that title) for future use as a precedent. (3) A statement of facts and documents, raising a point of law, submitted for the opinion of counsel. See PRECEDENTS. (4) includes a suit or any proceeding before a court. [Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987), s. 2 (1) (a)]. (5) The expression 'case' is not limit...
case
case [Latin casus accident, event, set of circumstances, literally, act of falling] 1 a : a civil or criminal suit or action [the judicial power shall extend to all s, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution "U.S. Constitution art. III"] see also controversy case at bar : a case being considered by the court [the facts of the case at bar] case of first im·pres·sion : a case that presents an issue or question never before decided or considered by the court com·pan·ion case : a case that is heard with another case because it involves similar or related questions of law test 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 case is selected from a number of cases in order to avoid a flood of litigation. All of the parties to the cases must agree to accept the outcome of the test case as bi...
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