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Plaintiff

One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to defendant.

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Litigant 76% connected

Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.

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Litigator 76% connected

One who litigates.

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Petitioner 76% connected

One who presents a petition.

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Suer 76% connected

One who sues; a suitor.

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Complain 74% connected

To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak…

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Complain 74% connected

To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak…

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Complainant 92% connected

One who makes complaint.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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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Claimant noun · 85% connection

someone who claims a benefit or right or title; "claimants of unemployment compensation"; "he was a claimant to the throne"

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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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Pretender noun · 84% connection

a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)

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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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Answer noun · 78% connection

the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of ‘…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Atonement noun · 78% connection

Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfa…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Canon noun · 78% connection

A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It e…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Champerty noun · 78% connection

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

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Cognizance noun · 78% connection

A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defe…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Collusion noun · 78% connection

An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by l…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Crossbill unknown · 78% connection

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

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Default noun · 78% connection

A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned,…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Defence noun · 78% connection

The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Dilatory plea noun · 78% connection

a plea that delays the action without settling the cause of action; it can challenge the jurisdiction or claim disability of the defen…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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Distress noun · 78% connection

The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an inju…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: commences, personal, suit, obtain, remedy.
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