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Action at law   /ˈækʃən æt lɔ/   Listen
Action at law

noun
1.
A judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong.  Synonyms: action, legal action.






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"Action at law" Quotes from Famous Books



... whom he laid the great falling off in the population of that city, he orders, that if anybody should make three charges and fail in proving them, he shall forfeit half his property and lose the right of bringing an action at law. The land had always paid a tax in proportion to the number of acres overflowed and manured by the waters of the Nile; and the husbandmen had latterly been frightened by the double threat of a new measurement ...
— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) • S. Rappoport



Words linked to "Action at law" :   antitrust case, jurisprudence, test case, action, lis pendens, law, proceeding, prosecution, legal action, civil action, counterclaim, criminal prosecution, proceedings, legal proceeding, custody case, test suit



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