Contentious

Contested; adversary; litigated between adverse or contending parties; a judicial proceeding not merely ew parte in its character, but comprising attack and defense as between opposing parties, is so called. The litigious proceedings in ecclesiastical courts are sometimes sald to belong to iis “contentious” jurisdiction, in contradis- L tinction to what is called its “voluntary” Jurisdiction, which is exercised in the granting of licenses, probates of wills, dispensations, faculties, etc. Pr of the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts which is exercised upon adversary or contentious proceedings.

See CONTENTIOUS.