Litigant

Litigant - A party to a lawsuit.
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Litigant: A party to a lawsuit.
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Litigant definition:
A person who is a party to a legal action.
A party to litigation, usually plaintiff, defendant or petitioner or respondent and even an intervener.
In criminal law, defendant or even the accused.

Litigant
(n) Litigant is the parties involved in a law suit as plaintiff, petitioner, defendant, respondent, cross-complainant or cross defendant. A litigant is a person interested in the lawsuit as for the cause or against it ...

Litigant: One who is engaged in a lawsuit.
Litigation: A law suit.
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Litigant - A party to a lawsuit.
Litigation - A lawsuit; a legal action, including all proceedings therein.
Living trust - A trust set up and in effect during the lifetime of the grantor. (Also called inter vivos trust.) ...

litigant: Party to a legal action
long form order: an order prepared by counsel for signature of the court (usually based on a memorandum decision)
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Litigant: A party to a case.
Lockout: Illegally forcing a tenant out of rented property, usually by changing the locks on the doors.
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litigant - A party to a lawsuit; one engaged in litigation.
locus delicti - The place of the offense.
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litigant
n. any party to a lawsuit. This means plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, respondent, cross-complainant and cross-defendant, but not a witness or attorney.

Litigant
A party to a lawsuit. Litigation refers to a case, controversy, or lawsuit.
Living Trust
A trust set up and in effect during the lifetime of the grantor. Also called inter vivos trust.

litigant A party to a civil or criminal action; one who engages in litigation.
litigation A general term referring to civil and criminal cases, at any level of court.

litigants: The parties (sides) involved in a lawsuit.
litigate: To conduct or engage in a lawsuit.
litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. The people involved in lawsuits (plaintiffs and defendants) are called "litigants." ...

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Lay litigant: Non-lawyer who brings a legal action without the assistance of a barrister or solicitor.
Lease: Contract between a property owner and another person for temporary use of property, in exchange for rent.

IN PROPRIA PERSONA -- See PRO PER LITIGANT.
In rem - Latin: All legal rights are either in personam or in rem.

Equity A branch of English law which developed hundreds of years ago when litigants would go to the King and complain of harsh or inflexible rules of common law which prevented "justice" from prevailing.

1 : to ascertain the number of : COUNT 2 : to specify one after another : LIST TOP Equity : A branch of English law which developed hundreds of years ago when litigants would go to the King and complain of harsh or inflexible rules of ...

judges were to travel in circuits through the land, and in many cases the procedure by way of "an inquest of the country," which the Norman kings had used for the ascertainment of their fiscal rights, was to be at the disposal of ordinary litigants.

Vexatious LitigantSomeone who persistently, and without reasonable grounds, brings proceedings in any court, or conducts a proceeding in a troubling manner.

be asserted as a defense by a litigant. A litigant may, however, have third-party standing to assert another's constitutional rights (as when an organization asserts the rights of its members) ...

Litigants representative of all social and economic classes are parties within the system.

party - One of the litigants usually referred to as the plaintiff or defendant.
patent - Right to hold a legal monopoly on the manufacture or sale of a invention, granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).

Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties ...

discovery and disclosure: Rules 26-37; the processes by which litigants may learn before trial what evidence their opponent intends to rely on. Discovery may include depositions, interrogatories, requests for documents, physical examinations, etc.

Pleading: A pleading is the process of making formal, written statements by the litigants. All papers filed with the court are collectively referred to as "pleadings."
Precedent: The value that a completed case has on deciding future cases.

Out-of-court settlement
An agreement between two litigants to settle a matter privately before the Court has rendered its decision.

371, in a matter within its jurisdiction, when the parties litigant had been notified and have had an opportunity of being heard, either establishing a demand, against the defendant or discharging him from it, is of binding force. 1 Dall. R.

Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.

Court proceedings in civil matters (q.v.). A litigant is one of the opposing parties (q.v.) in a civil proceeding.
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settlement 1 : the act or process of settling 2 a : an agreement reducing or resolving differences ;esp : an agreement between litigants that concludes the litigation [the states finally agreed upon a and a ...

The judge may also order some act to be done or not done by another litigant or participant at trial.

Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.

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Affinity: The ties and relationship between a person and the blood relations of his or her spouse. (A judge is disqualified from a case if he is in any way related to, or has any affinity to, any one of the litigants.) ...

Refusing to answer a proper question, to file court papers on time, to pay court-ordered child support, or to follow local court rules can expose witnesses, lawyers, and litigants to contempt findings.

An attorney is authorized to issue most subpoenas. A pro se litigant may issue a subpoena, but they are required to have the subpoena "so ordered" by having the subpoena signed by the presiding judge.

Intervention must take place fairly early in the lawsuit, shortly after a complaint and answer have been filed and not just before trial since that could prejudice one or both parties who have prepared for trial on the basis of the original litigants.

Soon itinerant royal courts were established to spare civil litigants the labor and expense of going to the capital at Westminster and to afford hearings to persons held on criminal charges in county jails. By the 14th cent.

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