Actionable: alternatives and connections

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and…

To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to a…

To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a r…

A thief.

To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a mili…

The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.

To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.

To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.

The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein,…

Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.

To play the thief; to steal.

One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.

A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest,…

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently o…