lawsuit English

Meaning lawsuit meaning

What does lawsuit mean?

lawsuit

— noun (= suit) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy the family brought suit against the landlord

Synonyms lawsuit synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lawsuit?

lawsuit English » English

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Topics lawsuit topics

What do people use lawsuit to talk about?

Social behavior Law

Court of law

• What is a court case called?
  trial case lawsuit suit action litigation proceedings dispute hearing

Social behavior Law

Trial

• What words refer to the process of administering the law?
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Examples lawsuit examples

How do I use lawsuit in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I would prefer any alternative to a lawsuit.

What is needed to win a lawsuit?

Movie subtitles

He's terrified of a workman's comp lawsuit.

The only thing we have in common is our lawsuit. and that will be settled next week.

The only thing that'll be over on Thursday will be the lawsuit.

You're gonna have a lawsuit on your hands. - Forrest C. Broughton, 85 West 68th Street. reported the loss of this cigarette lighter three weeks ago.

That lawsuit could have finished you if we hadn't come to the rescue.

A lawsuit will decide who's right.

No, it's just that he's busy with the lawsuit.

And how's the lawsuit?

And Averil Machin has a lawsuit in the Court of Requests.

They launch a lawsuit.

You hit me, you get yourself one sweet lawsuit!

He was quite sociable back then but got involved in a lawsuit, which he lost.

It'll all be in the lawsuit.

Guardascione for the lawsuit.

Look what a lawsuit did to New York Daily last year.

Moriarty went to him with a trumped up lawsuit to put us off the track.

Ordering me out from under the roof of my host is grounds for a very, nasty, little lawsuit.

Contempt? followed by a lawsuit. that your enemies would have used to harm you by provoking a scandal.

You've let a psychopathic case walk out and roam around with a white rabbit! You've laid me open to a lawsuit!

Just remember, there's no such thing as a cheap lawsuit.

Especially since there are efforts in London, according to this newspaper, to file a lawsuit against me.

Call off the lawsuit against them, and the problems of national security must all be handled following their method.

So the lawsuit will be dissolved, too.

You're gonna have a lawsuit on your hands.

Now, Sara, ordinarilyawoman has too much pride to contest a lawsuit like this.

You've laid me open to a lawsuit!

The great lawsuit of the Pope's beard or the depletion of the sources of the Ganges.

He was quite sociable back then but got involved in a lawsuit, which he lost. Since then, he lives like a hermit.

A lawsuit against him.

I don't want to become a local joke. Mr. Gittes, you've talked me into it. I'll drop the lawsuit.

I'll drop the lawsuit.

Sorry. Look, you sue me, your husband dies, you drop the lawsuit like a hot potato. All of it quicker than the wind from a duck's ass.

News and current affairs

China cannot meet this standard, either. Chinese law limits the types of bureaucratic actions that can be challenged by lawsuit, such as abuses of discretion.

Later, after his dismissal from his post, that same civil aviation chief confessed that Armenian President Robert Kocharyan had advised him to file his lawsuit.

They have now joined a highly publicized lawsuit against the school, stepping into the light of day under their own names.

The cases involving science included a costly lawsuit against Nature, one of the world's best-known and most widely respected scientific journals.

Chinese law limits the types of bureaucratic actions that can be challenged by lawsuit, such as abuses of discretion.

Thomas Edison designed the phonograph to help the blind - and filed a lawsuit to prevent it from being used to play music.

The lawsuit did not stop with the DKE incident.

So the students' lawsuit was not surprising to me.

Even in lawsuit-happy America one could not find a lawyer to represent my claim against the hunters who, three centuries ago, deprived me of the chance to see the now-extinct Dodo.