The word "litigant" is correct and widely used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a person involved in a lawsuit or court case, either as someone bringing a case to court or as someone opposing a case. Example sentence: The litigants were given an opportunity to present their case in court.
The morgellons believers look expectantly at the indignant litigant.
Mr Blankenship was not, personally, a litigant and has done nothing illegal.
As someone who now has a speciality in e-discovery, I see a small trend where the courts are reaching for mechanisms to impose undue costs of discovery on the litigant responsible for them.
The court, he went on,is deeply disappointed that any litigant would fail to obey orders for production of documents, and then conceal and cover up that disobedience with outright false statements that the court then relied upon This two-week contempt trial has certainly proved that the court's trust in the Justice Department was misplaced.
Whatever the merits of his cases, Mr Kinsky is an inconvenient litigant.
At the same time the IMF released a plan to revamp its lending policies, which may in the long run help to provide some clarity and consistency.In mid-June America's Supreme Court ruled that Argentina could not pay the 92% of creditors who accepted big reductions in the amount they were owed unless it also paid the litigant "holdouts" the full value of their original claims plus interest.
This is not true now, because one of the largest shareholders is typically the lead litigant.
Beginning in the 1970s, the court was less willing to support litigant claims that would further expand individual rights and freedoms, though for the most part it did not significantly restrict them.
The law that the magistrates applied probably consisted of three elements: (1) an existing mercantile law that was used by the Mediterranean traders; (2) those institutions of the Roman law that, after being purged of their formalistic elements, could be applied universally to any litigant, Roman or foreigner; and (3) in the last resort, a magistrate's own sense of what was fair and just.
Pleading, in law, written presentation by a litigant in a lawsuit setting forth the facts upon which he claims legal relief or challenges the claims of his opponent.
If they have to interpret those facts with their medical knowledge, they are known as "expert" witnesses and are expected to present their opinions fairly and without bias toward the litigant by whom they have been called.
