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friendly suit

noun

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  1. The situation where a person sues another person (friend) purely to settle a point of…

    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.
    • 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.

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