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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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appear for someone
bring
bring an action
complainant
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lawyer
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legal action
litigate
litigation
petitioner
prosecution
prosecutorial
reindict
reindictment
retry
summons

litigant | Business English

litigant
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈlɪtɪɡənt/ us /ˈlɪṱ-/
LAW
a person or organization that is involved in a case that is being discussed in a court of law:
The trial abruptly ended when litigants announced they had settled the case out of court.

Examples of litigant

litigant
What matters is that the evidence is contextualized in terms of both the social status of the litigants and the period.
The form was widely available throughout the country; the litigant had to fill in the blanks and submit it.
By requiring the courts to treat like cases alike, the law purports to assure the litigants that they are treated equally by the law.
Potential litigants may have relied on previous judicial rulings and formed expectations about the law that it would be wrong to frustrate.
Since the records rarely state the marital status of men, it is impossible to gauge how this might have affected their activities as litigants.
Conversely, those less likely to enjoy privileged status, such as craftsmen, labourers and rural workers, were under-represented as litigants in the university courts.
That is, the altruistic litigant must argue its case on the basis of its own existing entitlements.
Those reasons may not be as strong as the reasons that apply to altruistic litigants.
The article then discusses the responses of litigants to the new judicial discourse and the legal culture in which it was embedded.
But won't a litigant (say, the defendant) have reason to make arguments of policy if his arguments of principle aren't ver y strong?
Such a top down conclusion would ignore the vital role of litigants in the production of knowledge.
Thus, litigants were tried exclusively by tribal judges chosen by the disputing parties themselves.
A challenge that makes reference both to rules and to the litigant's own situation.
Even a crude distinction between aristocratic, non-aristocratic rural, and urban litigants respectively suggests some interesting and marked patterns.
But the point remains, namely that the pattern of litigation reflects both the social composition of the litigants and contemporary social parameters.
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