Definition of DEPENDING in Black's Law Dictionary 4th Edition – Legal dictionary – Glossary of legal terms.
Definition of DEPENDING
In practice. Pending or undetermined; in progress. See 5 Coke, 47.
Under a statute, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1781, note, permitting the taking of testimony by deposition de bene esse, a cause is "depending" from the time of the issuance of the original writ. Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. v. Bates Expanded Steel Truss Co., D.C.Del., 296 F. 281, 283.
In patent law. A convenient means of saying that the parts of a device were so attached as to have a right-angle relationship to each other, not a gravitational hanging of one part upon another. Alemite Mfg. Corporation v. Rogers Products Co., C.C.A.N.J., 42 F.2d 648, 651.
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