A provider of material, usually written or audio/visual works to be viewed by an audience. A newspaper website provides content to read. … [Read more...]

police, crim. law. Diseases which are capable of being transmitted by mediate or immediate contact. 2. Unlawfully and injuriously to expose persons infected with the smallpox or other contagious disease in the public streets where persons are passing, or near the habitations of others, to their great danger, is indictable at common law. 1 Russ. Cr. 114. Lord Hale seems to doubt … [Read more...]

Contested; adversary; litigated between adverse or contending parties; a judicial proceeding not merely ex parte in its character, but comprising attack and defense as between opposing parties, is so called. The litigious proceedings in ecclesiastical courts are sometimes said to belong to its "contentious" jurisdiction, in contradistinction to what is called its "voluntary" … [Read more...]

In English law. The commission received for carrying over or putting off the time of. execution of a contract to deliver stocks or pay for them at a certain time. Wharton. … [Read more...]

eccl. law. In those cases where there is an action or judicial process, and it consists in hearing and determining the matter between party and party, it is said there is contentious jurisdiction, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, which is exercised in matters that require no judicial proceeding, as in taking probate of wills, granting letters of administration, … [Read more...]