Definition of Plainant

1. n. One who makes complaint; the plaintiff.

Definition of Plainant

1. Noun. (legal obsolete) One who makes complaint; the plaintiff. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plainant

1. a plaintiff [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plainant

plain film
plain flour
plain line
plain lined
plain lines
plain lining
plain paper
plain sailing
plain song
plain stitch
plain text
plain to see
plain turkey
plain wanderer
plain weave
plainant (current term)
plainants
plainchant
plainchants
plainclothed
plainclothes
plainclothes man
plainclothes men
plainclothesman
plainclothesmen
plained
plainer
plainest
plainful
plaining

Literary usage of Plainant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1919)
"... plainant's corporate capacity to sue, where defendant by pleading to merits has waived that question. Time limitation for removal is not ..."

2. American Railroad and Corporation Reports: Being a Collection of the Current by John Lewis (1895)
"... plainant the Oakdale Manufacturing Company is the corporation organized by the other parties to the suit, under the laws of the state of Kentucky, ..."

3. A Calendar of the Court Minutes, Etc. of the East India Company, 1635-1639 by East India Company, Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, William Foster (1907)
"plainant and would be read now were there more present ; but, it being five o'clock, and therefore too late to expect any more, he adjourns the court until ..."

4. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1919)
"... plainant's corporate capacity to sue, where defendant by pleading to merits has waived that question. Time limitation for removal is not ..."

5. American Railroad and Corporation Reports: Being a Collection of the Current by John Lewis (1895)
"... plainant the Oakdale Manufacturing Company is the corporation organized by the other parties to the suit, under the laws of the state of Kentucky, ..."

6. A Calendar of the Court Minutes, Etc. of the East India Company, 1635-1639 by East India Company, Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, William Foster (1907)
"plainant and would be read now were there more present ; but, it being five o'clock, and therefore too late to expect any more, he adjourns the court until ..."

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