Meaning of friendly suit | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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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