friendly suit
friendly suit noun: the situation where a person sues another person (friend) purely to settle a point of (unsettled) law.
Noun
friendly suit (plural friendly suits)
- The situation where a person sues another person (friend) purely to settle a point of (unsettled) law.
- Federal courts cannot adjudicate a friendly suit, collusively arranged between non-adverse parties to obtain the judicial resolution of some constitutional issue.2007, Norman Redlich, John B. Attanasio, Joel K. Goldstein, Understanding Constitutional Law, →ISBN
- The summer after my freshman year in college, four years after the death of Miss Agnes, my father's bank filed a friendly suit against him to receive the court's interpretation of Miss Agnes's will.2015, Kate Mayfield, The Undertaker's Daughter, →ISBN, page 293
friendly suit meaning in Tamil
friendly suit in Tamil
- நட்புமுறை வழக்கு
Forms of friendly suit
| plural | friendly suits |
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Questions about friendly suit
- What does friendly suit mean?
- Friendly suit means the situation where a person sues another person (friend) purely to settle a point of (unsettled) law.
- What is friendly suit in Tamil?
- Friendly suit in Tamil is நட்புமுறை வழக்கு. See Friendly suit meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is friendly suit?
- Friendly suit is a noun.
- What is the plural of friendly suit?
- The plural of friendly suit is friendly suits.
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