defendant

Examples of plaintiff

plaintiff
The plaintiff (most probably at the suggestion of her attorney) changed strategy and decided to employ a procedural argument rather than substantive one.
I identify important possibilities, ignored in the formal models, which serve materially to reduce the profitably of the strategy to a plaintiff.
He asked the plaintiffs to sit aside to discuss this ruling.
There, as we saw, the plaintiff's right to remedy in some sense derived from the right in whose violation the defendant's breach of duty consisted.
Litigation was indeed very costly for both plaintiffs and defendants, and the above expenses were only the tip of the iceberg.
The restitutionar y claim is made out if some of the plaintiff's loss corresponds to some of the defendant's gain.
Let us assume that both parties agree that the plaintiff's rule is the fair rule.
The important point is that the defendant's duty to the plaintiff persists after its breach.
We do not insist that the plaintiff's loss must be the measure of the damages.
Relatedly, the economic model cannot explain why the defendant's liability is equivalent to the plaintiff's loss.
If plaintiffs lived in remote villages, they had to make overnight trips to the yamen courts in designated cities.
What settlement does is to make the one-in-thirteen ex ante chance of prevailing the determining factor for all plaintiffs.
Our tort law's system of imposing liability on defendants if they have tortiously injured plaintiffs is essentially a system of corrective justice.
The plaintiffs knew what the statutes required of school systems but had a different idea about what the law required.
The plaintiff knew all about this car when he got into it.
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