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Claimant

One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.

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Applicant 76% connected

One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.

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Applier 76% connected

He who, or that which, applies.

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Pretender 76% connected

One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.

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Claim 74% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Claim 74% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Complaint noun · 85% connection

(civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based

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Defendant noun · 85% connection

a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

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Suspect noun · 85% connection

a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

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Libel noun · 85% connection

the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief they seek

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Accused noun · 84% connection

a defendant in a criminal proceeding

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Co-defendant noun · 84% connection

a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action

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Codefendant noun · 84% connection

a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action

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Co-respondent noun · 84% connection

the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding

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Corespondent noun · 84% connection

the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding

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Respondent noun · 84% connection

the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent

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Abatement of a nuisance noun · 78% connection

(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance

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Actual damages noun · 78% connection

(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…

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Assumed name noun · 78% connection

(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of inc…

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Attestant noun · 78% connection

(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature

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Attestator noun · 78% connection

(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature

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case law noun · 78% connection

(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions

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Cease and desist order noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunctions were forme…

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Abandon verb · 78% connection

stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have…

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Adjustment noun · 78% connection

Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marsh…

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Affirmant noun · 78% connection

One who affirms or asserts.

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Agnosticism noun · 78% connection

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.

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Arrogance noun · 78% connection

The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant cl…

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Arrogate verb · 78% connection

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to…

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Asserter noun · 78% connection

One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.

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Assertor noun · 78% connection

One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an as…

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Avower noun · 78% connection

One who avows or asserts.

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Color noun · 78% connection

An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, th…

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Common noun · 78% connection

The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the comm…

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