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Legal precedent setter
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test case
Word definitions for test case in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ If it goes to court it could be an important test case . ▪ It promised, in a very real sense, a test case for our theories of the behavior of impactors. ▪ Mrs Ruth Annison, association secretary, thought the Redmire branch would ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) A legal action intended to set a precedent. 2 (context computing English) Any of a set of conditions and variables used to test an application.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent [syn: test suit ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In case law , a test case is a legal action whose purpose is to set a precedent . An example of a test case might be a legal entity who files a lawsuit in order to see if the court considers a certain law or a certain legal precedent applicable in specific ...
Usage examples of test case.
Next year my people in Chicago will engineer a test case to get a ruling that any form of operant screening of employees by private corporations is an invasion of privacy and unconstitutional.
I surrender myself to the Gestapo, a test case to determine whether or not I, a distinguished guest and reliable taxpayer who has never failed to contribute to the police welfare fund and to the firemen's ball, can in fact be locked up for no reason whatever.
One of the slower freighters had already gotten under way to the safety zone, and that test case was the one she was most concerned about.