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friendly suits

friendly suits is the plural of friendly suit.

Meaning of friendly suit

Noun

friendly suit (plural friendly suits)

  1. 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

Questions about friendly suits

What is friendly suits the plural of?
Friendly suits is the plural of friendly suit.

Words near friendly suits in the dictionary

  1. friendly number
  2. friendly numbers
  3. friendly societies
  4. friendly society
  5. friendly suit
  6. friendly suits
  7. friendly URL
  8. friendly URLs
  9. friendlyish
  10. friendmaking
  11. friendmance

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