judicial inquiry

judicial inquiry
An inquiry which investigates, declares, and enforces liabilities as they stand on present or past facts and under laws supposed already to exist. Keller v Potomac Electric Power Co. 261 US 428, 67 L Ed 731, 43 S Ct 445.

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