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(law) The leaving out of certain portions of a plaintiff's demand, the writ still holding good for the remainder.
n
(obsolete, law) Someone who institutes a legal suit; a plaintiff or complainant.
n
(law) The opposing party in a lawsuit under an adversary system of law; adversary.
n
(law) A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement.
n
(law) An individual or collective whose rights have been violated and who is entitled to commence a lawsuit; victim.
n
(US, law) A plea in criminal court in which the defendant does not admit guilt but concedes the government has sufficient evidence to convict.
n
(law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
n
(chiefly US, law) The question put to a convicted defendant by a judge after the rendering of the verdict in a trial, in which the defendant is asked whether he or she wishes to make a statement to the court before sentencing; the statement made by a defendant in response to such a question; the legal right of a defendant to make such a statement.
n
Alternative form of amercement [(law) A non-statutory monetary penalty or forfeiture, usually applied at the discretion of a court.]
n
(law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
adj
(law) Being or relating to an injunction that prevents an opposing party from commencing or continuing a proceeding in another jurisdiction or forum.
n
A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
n
Obsolete form of appellant. [(law) a litigant or party that is making an appeal in court]
v
Obsolete spelling of appeal [(intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.]
n
Obsolete form of appeal. [An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.]
n
(law) a litigant or party that is making an appeal in court
adj
That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
n
(specific, law) A party who initiates legal proceedings against another party.
n
The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
n
(US law) The filing under state law of a claim naturally arising under federal law.
n
(law, obsolete) Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.
n
(law) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.
n
(law, historical) In the English Court of Chancery, prior to the Judicature Act of 1873, the formal statement of the facts and prayer for relief submitted by a plaintiff to the court.
n
(law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
n
(countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
n
(law) A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
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(law) A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.
n
(law) In Roman Dutch law, a lawsuit that is not criminal in nature. It may be between the state and a private party. It is usually based in contract, or delict (tort).
n
(law) A lawsuit; an action filed in a court of law to recover for injury wrongfully caused by another.
n
A trial in which a plaintiff seeks damages or other remedy from a defendant; a lawsuit
n
(law) The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.
n
(law, chiefly US, Canada) A lawsuit brought by a single plaintiff or small group of plaintiffs as a representative of a large group of others having a common interest, with everyone in the large group eligible to receive damages if the plaintiff is successful.
n
(US, law) A motion to dismiss a case in the interest of justice.
n
Alternative form of corespondent [(law) One of two or more persons against whom a lawsuit is made; but especially a person charged with committing adultery with the defendant in a divorce proceeding.]
n
(law) Any of several defendants answering the same charge.
n
(law) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.
n
A provision of a contract in which a debtor concedes to jurisdiction in certain courts, waives notice agreements, and in case of a default or breach grants an adverse judgment.
n
(law) The estoppel forbidding again litigating an issue decided in a previous case with the same parties, or even with the same party being estopped.
n
(law) A legal avenue to upset a judgment that has otherwise become final.
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(law) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
n
(law) The party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff.
n
Rare spelling of complainant. [(law) The party that brings a civil lawsuit against another; the plaintiff.]
n
(law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;
n
One who brings a legal challenge.
n
The party against whom a legal challenge is brought.
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(UK, law, obsolete) The situation where a plaintiff recovered damages for several trespasses in the same action.
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(law) Any of several plaintiffs bringing the same charge.
n
(law) One of two or more persons against whom a lawsuit is made; but especially a person charged with committing adultery with the defendant in a divorce proceeding.
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(law) An appeal lodged in response to an earlier appeal.
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(law) One who makes a counterappeal.
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(law) A suit filed by a defendant against a plaintiff secondary to the original complaint.
n
One who makes a counterclaim.
n
One who files a countercomplaint.
n
(law) A plea made in opposition to another.
v
(transitive) To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To sue a person or entity who is suing one.
n
(law) A lawsuit filed against a party that has filed a suit against one.
n
(law) An appeal to one court to review the decision of another.
n
(law) A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
n
(law) A secondary lawsuit, brought by a defendant in an original lawsuit, against a co-defendant in the original suit.
n
(US, law) A special motion in limine raised before or during trial, to exclude the presentation of unqualified evidence to the jury.
n
(UK, law, obsolete) The plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction.
n
(law) The legal privilege of a party, in certain circumstances, to decline the jurisdiction of a judge before whom the party's case sits.
n
(law) In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.
n
Obsolete form of defendant. [(law) In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.]
n
(Scotland, law) A defendant in a civil action.
n
(law, by extension) The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
n
(law) A plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, lack of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.
n
One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
n
(international relations) The party, generally a state, that seeks to forestall or respond to noncompliance with or violation of an international law or treaty.
n
(law) A female demandant.
n
(law) A party who seeks a demurrer.
n
(law) A motion by a party to an action, for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further.
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(law) A stop or pause by a party to an action in order to ask the court to determine the question of whether the evidence as it stands ought to be admitted, based on the law of admissibility of evidence.
n
(law) One who disclaims.
n
(law) A legal document filed in connection with litigation, and describing documents, materials, or information which the opposing party is requested to produce.
n
(ecclesiastical law) A complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop.
n
(law) The situation of a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit having multiple options from which to choose as to how the defendant's wrong may be righted.
n
Obsolete form of indictment. [(law) An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.]
v
Obsolete form of interplead. [(law) To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an interpleader.]
n
(law) A common law defense in defamation cases, allowing the expression of robust or outrageous opinions about public figures and public officials, if the statements are not made with spite or intent to harm.
n
(countable) A perjurer; a deceptive or misleading witness.
n
(law) An issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause.
n
(law) The plaintiff in a lawsuit.
adj
Of or relating to the plaintiff in a lawsuit.
n
(law) Attempting to file a lawsuit in (or have it transferred to) the jurisdiction most favorable to the party filing the suit.
n
(Anglicanism) A document sent by the Lower House of Convocation to the Upper House to inform the latter of certain grievances in the church.
n
(law) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
v
(law) To ensure that an accused person has the chance to seek to refute the accusations.
n
(law, obsolete) Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit, but also used to obtain further time to plead or answer allegations.
v
(law) To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
n
(law) A procedural device before trial in which a party joins a third party into a lawsuit because that party is liable to an original defendant.
n
The act of impleading, or the state of being impleaded.
n
(law) A request to have a court waive filing fees in a civil action because the plaintiff is indigent.
n
(law) An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.
n
(law) The plaintiff in a lawsuit.
n
(law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
n
(law) An action ingrafted on another suit, in which the interpleader becomes the plaintiff and the attaching plaintiff is the defendant.
v
(law) To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an interpleader.
n
(law) Process by which a third party asks a court to determine which of two rival claims is to be honored by the third party.
n
(law) The joining of a litigant to a suit.
adj
(law, of a defendant) Exempt from the payment of debts, either because of insufficient funds or because of protection by statute.
n
(law) An acquittal by a jury of a defendant ignoring the facts of the case and/or the law.
n
(US, law) A plea in criminal court in which the defendant does not admit guilt, but concedes that the state has sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction.
n
(law) In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.
n
(law, countable) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
n
The party against which a libel (hostile handbill) has been filed by a libelant.
n
(law) A notice of pending litigation against a property.
n
(law) A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit.
n
(law) A litigant without an attorney.
n
(law) The conduct of a lawsuit.
n
(law) The situation where both parties in a case have stated their pleas and agreed to abide by the judge's decision.
n
The act of one who lobbies.
n
(law) A trial that has been declared invalid because of an error in procedure, or because of hung jury.
v
(transitive, law) To declare a mistrial in (a court case).
v
To argue or plead in a supposed case.
n
(law) The party who moves for the judge to rule in favor of a motion.
n
(Scotand, law) A legal action taken when there are several claimants to the same fund or property.
n
A vow that one makes on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day for the coming year.
n
(law) An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules of the court by the opposing party.
n
One who lodges a legal objection.
n
(obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.
n
(law) A type of court order that requires a person to justify, explain, or prove something to the court.
n
(law) A technique of boycotting a judge by the Public Defender's Office by filing a request for a different judge in every case assigned to this judge.
n
(law) An award granted by a court in a legal proceeding to one party requiring another party to pay an amount of the first party's legal costs, excluding lawyer fees.
n
(law, archaic) The party to a legal dispute who first raised a complaint in a court.
n
(law, archaic) The party to a legal dispute against whom a complaint was initially raised in a court.
n
A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.
n
(law) Someone who presents a petition to a court.
n
A petitioner; one who submits a petition.
n
(law) The claimant or plaintiff in ancient legal systems.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Of or relating to legal pleas.
n
(law) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.
n
(chiefly law) An act of pleading; a plea.
n
(law, obsolete) One who makes complaint; the plaintiff.
n
(archaic or UK law) An accusation.
n
(law, UK historical, otherwise current) A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.
n
(law) A party who appeals the decision of a lower court.
n
(law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
n
(law) The process of negotiating a verdict and sentence without a complete trial.
n
Synonym of defense in abatement
n
(Britain law) A legal action against a criminal.
v
(US, law) To make an agreement in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge instead of not guilty to a greater one.
v
(law, US) To invoke the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects witnesses from being forced to incriminate themselves.
n
(law) a person who pleads in court; an advocate
n
(US, informal) A pledge (“applicant to a college fraternity”).
n
(obsolete) A warrant or assurance.
n
A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.
n
(law) The portion of a complaint in which the plaintiff describes the remedies sought from the court, such as damages or an injunction.
n
(ecclesiastical law) A formal complaint submitted to a bishop or archdeacon.
n
A pretender; a claimant.
n
One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
n
(law) The party in a civil lawsuit whom the factfinder determines to be right, and who, in some jurisdictions, may recover attorney's fees and other expenses associated with the prosecution or defense of the lawsuit.
adj
In favor of a claimant or claimants.
adj
Alternative form of pro-claimant [In favor of a claimant or claimants.]
adj
In favour of the defendant in a legal case.
adj
In favour of the plaintiff in a legal case.
n
The noting by a notary public of an unpaid or unaccepted bill.
n
(law, historical) A declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.
n
(obsolete) One who makes protestation; a protester.
n
(Scotland, law) The party who initiates a lawsuit; a plaintiff.
n
(law) A complaint preferred in a court.
n
(law, obsolete) A complaint to a court in Old English law.
n
(law, historical) A complainant; a plaintiff.
n
(law) A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
n
(law) The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.
n
(law) The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice.
n
(law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
n
(law) The defendant's answer to the replication.
n
One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations.
n
(law) A second pleading, or course of pleadings.
n
(law) A plaintiff in replevin.
n
(law) A response from the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.
n
(law) A legal document filed in connection with litigation, asking the opposing party to affirm or deny the truth of a statement.
n
(law) A legal document filed in connection with litigation which asks the opposing party to provide documents or other physical objects.
n
A person from whom something is requested
n
One who, or that which, makes a request.
n
(law) A defendant, especially in a case instituted by a petition or in appellate and divorce proceedings.
n
(law) Act of giving testimony, in a trial, that would incriminate oneself.
n
(law) A legal complaint or an answer to a complaint which sets forth an excessive number of facts with no clear organization, and then asserts that those facts describe a cause of action or a defense.
n
(law) The form by which either party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his/her opponent; a joinder in issue.
v
To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
n
(law) The recipient of a solicitation; one who is solicited
n
(law) An issue taken by denying a particular part of the allegations.
n
Someone who uses special pleading; someone who argues that a particular case is an exception to a generally accepted rule, without justification or without a relevant basis.
n
(law) A statement issued in civil court proceedings by a plaintiff. It sets forth the complaints against the defendants, and the prayers for relief from the court.
n
(law) A lawsuit of questionable merit brought in the hope of gaining a private settlement, before going to court, that would be less than the defendant's legal costs.
n
The act of one who sues for something.
n
One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
n
One who pleads or requests earnestly.
n
one who comes to humbly ask or petition
n
(UK, historical, universities) A petition, especially a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.
n
(law, historical) A writ issued by the King's Bench or Chancery for taking the surety of the peace against a person.
n
(law) An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee
v
(law) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
n
(law) The plaintiff's reply in pleading to a defendant's rebuttal.
n
(law) A plaintiff's answer to the defendant's rejoinder.
n
(law) A derivative lawsuit brought by a defendant in an original lawsuit, claiming that another new party being brought in is responsible for or should share in the plaintiff's damages against the defendant.
n
(India, law) A document filed by a party in order to appoint a lawyer to plead on their behalf.
n
(law) A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.
n
(informal, by extension) Any indication of confidence in another.
n
(obsolete) One who makes a vow.
n
(US, California, law) A plea of nolo contendere.
adj
Of or pertaining to such a protest.
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