CONTENTIOUS JURISDICTION, eccl (law) and Ochs, Adolph Simon (sh)

CONTENTIOUS JURISDICTION, eccl (law)

CONTENTIOUS JURISDICTION, eccl. law. In those cases where there is an action or judicial process, and it consists in hearing and determining the matter or judicial process, and it consists in hearing and determining the matter between party and party, it is said there is contentious jurisdiction, in between party and party, it is said there is contentious jurisdiction, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, which is exercised in matters contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, which is exercised in matters that require no judicial proceeding, as in taking probate of wills, granting that require no judicial proceeding, as in taking probate of wills, granting letters of administration, and the like. 3 Bl. Com. 66. letters of administration, and the like. 3 Bl. Com. 66.

Ochs, Adolph Simon (sh)

born March 12, 1858, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
died April 8, 1935, Chattanooga, Tenn.

U.S. newspaper publisher.

Ochs grew up in Tennessee, where he worked for various newspapers. At age 20 he borrowed $250 to become proprietor of the moribund Chattanooga Times, which he developed into one of the South's leading newspapers. He gained control of the financially faltering New York Times in 1896. Despising yellow journalism, he adopted the slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" and emphasized comprehensive and trustworthy news gathering. Under his ownership the Times became one of the world's outstanding newspapers. From 1900 he was a director of the Associated Press. Ochs's son-in-law, Arthur H. Sulzberger, was the first in a succession of family heirs to lead the New York Times Co.

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