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Contest
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To defend against an adverse claim made in a court by a plaintiff or a prosecutor; to challenge a position asserted in a judicial proceeding, as to contest the probate of a will.
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supports a conception of democracy under which contestability takes the place usually given to consent; what is of primary importance is not that government does what the people tells it but, on pain of arbitrariness, that people can always contest whatever it is that government does.
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the policy must be beyond any carrier or statutory contestability period, fully renewable and subject only to the payment of premiums;
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Bland added that case law now challenges the previously "ironclad" two-year contestability clause.
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