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Definition of Pendency
1. n. The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.
Definition of Pendency
1. Noun. The state of being pendent; suspension ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pendency
1. a pending state [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pendency
Literary usage of Pendency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1900)
"Schenck, 3 ED Smith (NY) 135, that the pendency of an action did not prevent the use
... In Pennsylvania it has been held that the pendency of a suit is no ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"But it has been well settled that the pendency of a prior held otherwise when
... Neither is bar if the second suit is of a different the pendency of such a ..."
3. General Explanation of Tax Legislation Enacted in 1998: Report of the Joint edited by William Roth, Bill Archer (2000)
"Levy prohibited during pendency of refund proceedings (sec. 3433 of the Act and
sec. 6331 of the Code) Present and Prior Law The IRS is prohibited from ..."
4. A Compendium of the Law of Merchant Shipping: With an Appendix Containing by Frederic Philip Maude, Charles Edward Pollock, Gainsford Bruce (1881)
""Where a point was raised as to whether the pendency of proceedings in the Court
of Session in Scotland to recover damages in respect of the same collision ..."
5. A Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third Volumes by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1851)
"RELIT- after a plea in abatement of the pendency of a prior suit, avoid the effect
me то THE Of a piea fry discontinuing the first action which was pending ..."
6. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1879)
"pendency of another action. The pendency of a suit is a good defense to a second
... But the plea or answer must aver the pendency of the former suit at the ..."
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