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We found 25 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word nonsuit: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "nonsuit" is defined. General (19 matching dictionaries) nonsuit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] nonsuit: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] nonsuit: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] nonsuit: Wordnik [home, info] nonsuit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] nonsuit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] nonsuit: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] nonsuit: Dictionary.com [home, info] Nonsuit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Nonsuit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] nonsuit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] Nonsuit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] nonsuit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] nonsuit: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info] Nonsuit: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info] nonsuit: Free Dictionary [home, info] nonsuit: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info] nonsuit: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info] nonsuit: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Business (5 matching dictionaries) nonsuit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info] nonsuit: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info] nonsuit: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info] nonsuit: Legal dictionary [home, info] nonsuit: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info] Medicine (1 matching dictionary) nonsuit: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (nonsuit) (a.) Nonsuited. (n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case. (v. t.) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up. (This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)