Select Search ----- All Bartleby.com ----- All Reference ----- Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough ----- All Verse ----- Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. ----- All Nonfiction ----- Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals ----- All Fiction ----- Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Roget’s > International Thesaurus > 969. Lawsuit.   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · INDEX GUIDE Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.   Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers Section IV. Moral Affections 5. Institutions   969. Lawsuit.       NOUN: LAWSUIT, suit, action, cause; litigation; suit in law; dispute [See Discord].   WRIT, summons, subpœna, citation, latitat [Eng. law]; nisi prius, venire, venire facias, habeas corpus [all L.].   ARRAIGNMENT, prosecution, impeachment; accusation [See Accusation]; presentment, true bill, indictment.   ARREST, apprehension, committal, commitment; imprisonment (restraint) [See Restraint].   PLEADINGS; declaration, bill, claim; procès-verbal [F.], bill of right, information, corpus delicti [L.]; affidavit, state of facts, libel; answer, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder; surrebutter, surrejoinder.   suitor, libelant or libellant, party to a suit; litigant [See Accusation].   HEARING, trial; judgment, sentence, finding, verdict [See Judgment]; appeal, - motion; writ of error; certiorari.   CASE, decision, precedent; decided case, reports.     VERB: GO TO LAW, appeal to the law; bring to -justice, - trial, - the bar; put on trial, pull up; accuse [See Accusation]; prefer or file a claim &c. n.; take the law of [colloq.], inform against.   cite, summon, summons, serve with a writ, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit; apprehend, arrest; give in charge (restrain) [See Restraint].   empanel a jury, challenge the jurors; implead, join issue; close the pleadings; set down for hearing.   TRY, hear a cause; sit in judgment; adjudicate [See Judgment].     ADJECTIVE: LITIGIOUS (quarrelsome) [See Discord]; qui tam, coram judice, sub judice [all L.].     ADVERB: pendente lite [L.].     QUOTATIONS: Adhuc sub judice lis est. Accedas ad curiam. Transeat in exemplum. These nice sharp quillets of the law.—I Henry VI We are for law; he dies.—Timon of Athens No man e’er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.—Trumbull Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.—Taming of the Shrew CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · INDEX GUIDE   PREVIOUS NEXT     Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore. Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com