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Definition of Test case
1. Noun. A representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent.
Generic synonyms: Action, Action At Law, Legal Action
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Definition of Test case
1. Noun. (legal) A legal action intended to set a precedent. ¹
2. Noun. (computing) Any of a set of conditions and variables used to test an application. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Test Case
Literary usage of Test case
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1895)
"(2) A simple test case of Maxwell's Law of Partition of Energy. By GH BRYAN, MA,
Peterhouse. 1. By Maxwell's Law of Partition of Kinetic Energy is meant the ..."
2. Economic Aspects of the War: Neutral Rights, Belligerent Claims and American by Edwin Jones Clapp (1915)
"... CHAPTER IV THE WILHELMINA—A test case Early in 1915 the question whether our
merchants could send foodstuffs to Germany, when not intended for the ..."
3. Economic Aspects of the War: Neutral Rights, Belligerent Claims and American by Edwin Jones Clapp (1915)
"... IV THE WILHELMINA — A test case Early in 1915 the question whether our merchants
could send foodstuffs to Germany, when not intended for the government ..."
4. Economic Aspects of the War: Neutral Rights, Belligerent Claims and American by Edwin Jones Clapp (1915)
"... CHAPTER IV THE WILHELMINA—A test case Early in 1915 the question whether our
merchants could send foodstuffs to Germany, when not intended for the ..."
5. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"He made them a test-case of the belief in miracles, of Synoptic authority, and
of the scientific enquirer's right to sit in judgment on both. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Judgments: Including the Doctrine of Res Judicata by Henry Campbell Black (1902)
"... the inconclusiveness of a nonsuit, viz., where the parties have agreed to
abide by the decision that may be rendered in a test case. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Judgments: Including the Doctrine of Res Judicata by Henry Campbell Black (1891)
"Judgment in test case. There is one possible exception to the rule of the ...
have agreed to abide by the decision that may be rendered in a test case. ..."
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