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Definition of Plaintiff

1. Noun. A person who brings an action in a court of law.

Definition of Plaintiff

1. n. One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to defendant.

2. a. See Plaintive.

Definition of Plaintiff

1. Noun. (legal) A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accusers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plaintiff

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Plaintiff

1. One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; opposed to defendant. Origin: F. Plaintif making complaint, plaintive; in Old French equiv. To plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. Plaindre. See Plaint, and cf. Plaintive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plaintiff

Literary usage of Plaintiff

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

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Thomas Wilde Truro, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1871)
"1], this Court doth order, that it be referred to the Master of this Court in rotation, to take an account of what is due to the plaintiff for principal and ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1841)
"The notes being given and the bill indorsed in pursuance of this agreement: New assignment, that part of the wages accrued due before plaintiff was drunk, ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"The plaintiff is a corporation doing business at Cincinnati, succeeding a ... The plaintiff claims that its real grievance arises not from the agreement of ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis (1835)
"1 * quarrelled with approve of plaintiff on a reasonable trial, he would plaintiff, ... plaintiff went home, and on the father applying to defendant for an ..."

5. Annual Report (1899)
"(i again visited the business office of this plaintiff, and again notified the said William M. Laffan, the business manager of this plaintiff, to discharge ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis (1840)
"The second count (a) charged that defendant broke and entered a wall of plaintiff, bounded towards the north by a certain workshop and building of defendant ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Thomas Wilde Truro, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1871)
"1], this Court doth order, that it be referred to the Master of this Court in rotation, to take an account of what is due to the plaintiff for principal and ..."

8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1841)
"The notes being given and the bill indorsed in pursuance of this agreement: New assignment, that part of the wages accrued due before plaintiff was drunk, ..."

9. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"The plaintiff is a corporation doing business at Cincinnati, succeeding a ... The plaintiff claims that its real grievance arises not from the agreement of ..."

10. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis (1835)
"1 * quarrelled with approve of plaintiff on a reasonable trial, he would plaintiff, ... plaintiff went home, and on the father applying to defendant for an ..."

11. Annual Report (1899)
"(i again visited the business office of this plaintiff, and again notified the said William M. Laffan, the business manager of this plaintiff, to discharge ..."

12. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis (1840)
"The second count (a) charged that defendant broke and entered a wall of plaintiff, bounded towards the north by a certain workshop and building of defendant ..."

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