Standing

Definition - adj
: continuing in existence, use, or effect indefinitely <a ~ order>

Definition - Noun
1  : the status of being qualified to assert or enforce legal rights or duties in a judicial forum because one has a sufficient and protectable interest in the outcome of a justiciable controversy and usu. has suffered or is threatened with actual injury <only one who already has ~ can argue the public interest in support of his claim ­Hawaii's Thousand Friends v. Anderson, 768 P.2d 1293 (1989)>
2  : a principle requiring that a party have standing in order to justify the exercise of the court's remedial powers



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