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Judicial proceeding   /dʒudˈɪʃəl prəsˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Judicial proceeding

noun
1.
A legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights.  Synonym: litigation.






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"Judicial proceeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... course of proceeding to be concordant with the character and spirit of our judicial proceeding, continued from time immemorial, supported by arguments of sound theory, and confirmed by effects highly beneficial, could not see without uneasiness, in this great trial for Indian offences, a marked innovation. ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... merely to maintain the supremacy of the laws of the United States, but also to guard the States from any encroachment upon their reserved rights by the general government.... So long ... as this Constitution shall endure, this tribunal must exist with it, deciding in the peaceful forms of judicial proceeding, the angry and irritating controversies between sovereignties, which in other countries have been determined ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin



Words linked to "Judicial proceeding" :   legal proceeding, proceeding, vexatious litigation, jurisprudence, law, proceedings, custody battle



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