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21Pendent jurisdiction — is the authority of a United States federal court to hear a closely related state law claim against a party already facing a federal claim, described by Justice Antonin Scalia as jurisdiction over nonfederal claims between parties litigating… …
22pendent party jurisdiction — see jurisdiction Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
23Pendent party jurisdiction — In the United States federal courts, pendent party jurisdiction refers to a court s power to adjudicate a claim against a party whom would otherwise not be subject to the jurisdiction of the federal courts, because the claim arose from a common… …
24pendent jurisdiction — A principle applied in federal courts that allows state created causes of action arising out of the same transaction to be joined with a federal cause of action even if diversity of citizenship is not present. Pendent jurisdiction is… …
25pendent — adj. [L. pendere, to hang] Hanging; suspended from above; pendulous adj …
26pendent — pen|dẹnt 〈Adj.; schweiz.〉 schwebend, unerledigt ● ein pendentes Gerichtsverfahren [zu lat. pendens, Part. Präs. von pendere „hängen, herabhängen, schweben“] * * * pen|dẹnt <Adj.> [zu lat. pendens (Gen.: pendentis), 1. Part. von: pendere,… …
27pendent — Synonyms and related words: at issue, cascading, conditional, conditioned, contingent, dangling, dependent, depending, falling, falling loosely, flowing, hanging, hung, in question, in suspense, in the balance, open, pending, pendulant, pendular …
28pendent — pen|dent Mot Agut Adjectiu invariable …
29pendent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hanging (see pendency); pending (see lateness). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pendant, Dependent, suspended; see hanging . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. hanging, suspended, dangling …
30pendent — pen|dẹnt 〈Adj.; schweiz.〉 schwebend, unerledigt [Etym.: <lat. pendens, Part. Präs. von pendere »hängen, herabhängen, schweben«] …
