Contest

As applied to public land affairs the term 'contest' has been long employed to designate a proceeding by an adverse or intending claimant, conducted in his own interest, against the entry of another.

Struggle for superiority In legal usage, a litigation. The word "contest," in constitutions and statutes, is a word of art. It means a litigation. It implies a plaintiff and a defendant, and a thing in controversy. When it is decided, it is, or should be, decided upon evidence, and the decision is a judgment. 112 Ky. 23.

To make defense to an adverse claim In a court of law; to oppose, resist or dispute the case made by a plaintiff. Pratt v. Breckinridge, 112 Ky. 1, 65 S. W. 136; Parks v. State, 100 Ala. 634, 13 South. 756.

— Contestation of snit. In an ecolesiastical cause, that stage of the suit which is reached when the defendant has answered the libel by giving in an allegation.

— Contested election. This phrase has no technical or legally defined meaning. An election may be said to be contested whenever an objection is formally urged against it which, if found to be true in fact, would invalidate it This is true bath as to objections founded upon some constitutional provision and to such as are based on statutes. Robertson v. State, 109 Ind. 116, 10 N. El 600.

To defend a suit or othor judicial proceeding; to resist a claim by course of law; to litigate, on the part of a defendant v. Contestatio litis.

To make defense to an adverse claim ina court of law; to oppose, resist, or dispute the case made by a plaintiff.

' To make the subject of litigation; to litigate; to dispute or resist. Contestable. Disputable; subject to resistance in a court; opposed to non-contestable. Contestant. A litigant; a suitor. To contest an election means to deny the legality thereof; to contest a will, to resist the probate of a writing alleged to be a will, — see Influence; Issue, 3, Feigned. Some policies of insurance, by covenant on the part of the insurer, are not contestable after a certain period, as, three years, for a matter which arose prior to the end of that period.