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Litigant   Listen
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Litigant  n.  A person engaged in a lawsuit.






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"Litigant" Quotes from Famous Books



... egit in causis civilibus. Id munus ut minimum habet oneris (nam non sedetur nisi die Iovis usque ad prandium), 250 ita cum primis honorificum habetur. Nemo plures causas absolvit, nemo se gessit integrius; remissa plerisque pecunia quam ex praescripto debent qui litigant. Siquidem ante litis contestationem actor deponit tres drachmas, totidem reus, nec amplius quicquam 255 fas est exigere. His moribus effecit ut civitati suae longe ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus

... the right of the writer of a letter to forbid its publication had never been established, and the view that a letter was a gift to the receiver had received some countenance. But Pope had so much of the true temper of a litigant, and so loved a nice point, that he might have been expected to raise the question on the first opportunity. He, however, did not do so, and the volume had a considerable sale—a fact not likely to be lost sight ...
— Obiter Dicta - Second Series • Augustine Birrell

... boasted of my vast influence with the chancellor. The lawyer, to whom madame de Bearn was to pay a visit on that very day, did not fail to repeat what M. Morand had told him. The next day the comtesse, like a true litigant, called upon him: she related her affair to him, and begged him to use his interest with me. "I would do it with pleasure," said the worthy, "if I did not think it better that you should see the comtesse du Barry yourself. I can assure you that she will be delighted to aid you." ...
— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

... them at once attacked with the armed hand the one defeated, and execution to the required amount was levied upon him. The judge received the larger share of this amount, and some was paid to the witnesses of the one who won the suit, while the poor litigant ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin



Words linked to "Litigant" :   complainant, jurisprudence, litigate, party, plaintiff, suspect, litigator, law, filer, defendant, plaintiff in error



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