The Statute has been legally contested by the surrounding Autonomous Communities of Aragon, Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community, as well as by the Partido Popular (at the time the main opposition party at the Spanish Parliament).

This regulation was introduced officially into law in 2002, after having been legally contested on several occasions.

The matter of who owns the club - the current members or a syndicate of former members - is now being legally contested.

Much of the animosity revolves around the 1973 land use law, which allows people to buy land they do not inhabit and then force the residents to leave two years later when ownership can no longer be legally contested.

The issue was not legally contested until the Somerset case of 1772, which concerned James Somersett, a fugitive black slave from Virginia.

In 1583 William Hunnis and John Newman transferred their sub-lease of property in the Blackfriars, which was being legally contested by the owner, Sir William More, to Evans.

The amended Autonomy Statute of Catalonia has also been legally contested by the surrounding Autonomous Communities of Aragon, Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community on similar grounds as those of the PP, and others such as disputed cultural heritage.

The case appeared to set the narrow limits within which the Government will allow itself to be legally contested.

All legal disputes about the license are settled in Oslo, Norway, but it has never been legally contested.