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Definition: Lawsuit |
LawsuitNoun1. (law) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lawsuit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Law | A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff. (references) |
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simple:LawThis article is about law in society. For other article subjects named law see law (disambiguation).
This article is concerned with laws of politics and jurisprudence: rules of conduct which mandate and/or proscribe specified relationships among people and organizations; as well as punishments for those who do not follow the established rules of conduct.
In ethics and moral philosophy this type of law is often called a "human legal code" to distinguish it from more fundamental laws applicable to all beings (metaphysics, ontology). Such a body of laws can be seen as a legally-enforced ethical code or as a "secular moral code" (to the degree that political leaders replace religious leaders as moral examples). Because lawyers and jurists more than other professions are self-regulating, almost by definition, they are often held to higher standards of behaviour or at least a stricter etiquette. These concerns are not part of this article, because those expectations and disciplines are specific to each legal code. This article takes an English-speaking point of view and deals with other legal traditions and codes by way of comparison only.
Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence refers to two different things. First, in common law jurisdictions, it means simply "case law", i.e. the law that is established through the decisions of the courts and other officials. Second, it means the philosophy of law, or legal theory, which studies not what the law is in a particular jurisdiction (say, Turkey or the United States) but law in general--i.e. those attributes common to all legal systems.Jurisprudence in the second sense is conventionally divided into two parts: descriptive, or analytic, jurisprudence, and normative jurisprudence. Analytic jurisprudence studies what law 'is', normative jurisprudence studies what law 'ought to be'.
Among the most important questions of analytic jurisprudence are these: What is a law What is a legal system? What is the relationship between law and power? What is the relationship between law and justice or morality? Does every society have a legal system? How should we understand concepts like legal rights and legal obligations or duties? The most influential works of analytic jurisprudence include: Jeremy Bentham, Of Laws in General; Hans Kelsen, The Pure Theory of Law, H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law, and Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire''.
Among the most important questions of normative jurisprudence are these: What is is the proper function of law? What sorts of acts should be subject to punishment, and what sorts of punishment should be permitted? What is justice? What rights do we have? Is there a duty to obey the law? What value has the rule of law? The most influential works of normative jurisprudence include all the classics of political philosophy. Among contemporary writers, the following have been particularly influential: John Rawls, A Theory of Justice H.L.A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility; Joel Feinberg, The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law; Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom; Ronald Dworkin, A Matter of Principle
Codification of Law
Law is the formal codification of customs which have achieved such acceptance as become the enforced norm. The process of acceptance is accelerated by the existence of legislative bodies which seek to impose laws.Law codification involves the legislation and regulation of statutes; as well as the resolution of disputes. In the civil law system codification is also an attempt to structure the law according to fundamental ethical principles to create a sense of order and simplicity that all members of society can comprehend, not merely university trained jurists. Stating the law in simple, precise terms, understandable to the lay person without a specialized legal education, is the only way they can reasonably obey it or be fairly sanctioned for not obeying it.
This overlaps with the idea of a formal social legal code as understood in ethics. This may be understandable to the educated lay person but perhaps not to the ordinary lay person. For example, one can explain the idea of precedent more easily than that of the reasonable man, but it may be much harder to explain why precedent is "fair" to one without "higher education". The following are examples of such lay explanations of different branches of law, and theories of law.
They are not comprehensive.
Branches of Law, a sampling
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- Administrative law refers to the body of law which regulates bureaucratic managerial procedures and is administered by the executive branch of a government; rather than the judicial or legislative branches (if they are different in that particular jurisdiction). This body of law regulates international trade, manufacturing, pollution, taxation, and the like. This is sometimes seen as a subcategory of civil law and sometimes called public law as it deals with regulation and public institutions.
- Canon law refers to laws of the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic churches.
- Case law (precedental law) regulates, via precedents, how laws are to be understood. Case law, also called common law or judge-made law, is derived from the body of rulings made by a country's courts. In the United States, the primary source of case law relating to federal and constitutional questions is the Supreme Court of the United States. The states, each with its own final court of appeals, generate case law that is only binding precedent in that state. In countries that were once part of the British Empire the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the House of Lords are primary sources of case law, though not necessarily binding precedent, as each country has its own court of last resort.
- Civil law has three accepted meanings:
- Secular law is the legal system of a theocratic government, such as that in England, during the reign of Henry II
- Private law seeks to regulate relationships between persons and organizations including contracts and responsible behaviour such as through liability through negligence. This body of law enforces statutes or the common law by allowing a party, whose rights have been violated, to collect damages from a defendant. Where monetary damages are deemed insufficient, civil court may offer other remedies in equity; such as forbiding someone to do an act (eg; an injunction) or formally changing someone's legal status (eg; divorce). This body of law includes the law of torts in common law systems, or in civilian systems, the Law of Obligations.
- The civilian legal system or civil law system is the general typology of legal systems found in most countries. It is an alternative to common law system and has its roots in Roman law. It is employed by almost every country that was not a colony of Great Britain. In most jurisdictions the civil law is codified in the form of a civil codes, but in some, like Scotland it remains uncodified. Most codes follow the Code Napolean in some fashion. Notably, the German code was developed from Roman law with reference to German legal tradition.
- Commercial law, often considered to be part of civil law, covers business and commerce relations including sales and business entities.
- Common law is derived from Anglo-Saxon customary law, also referred to as judge-made law, as it developed over the course of many centuries in the English courts. It is a system of law used in England, many of the states of the United States (except California and Louisiana) and other former British possessions such as in the Laws of Australia, Canada, India, and Ireland.
- Criminal law (penal law) is the body of laws which regulate governmental sanctions (such as imprisonment and/or fines) as retaliation for crimes against the social order.
- International law governs the relations between states, or between citizens of different states, or international organizations. Its two primary sources are customary law and treaties.
- Islamic law (Sharia), is derived from the Koran and used in many Middle Eastern nations; such as in the Laws of Iran and Saudi Arabia.
- Procedural Law are rules and regulations found in an legal system that regulate access to legal institutions such as the courts, including the filing of private lawsuits and regulating the treatment of defendants and convicts by the public criminal justice system. Within this field are laws regulating arrests and evidence, injunctions and pleadings. Procedural law defines the procedure by which law is to be enforced. See criminal procedure and civil procedure.
- Socialist law is the term for civil law as practiced within states of the former Soviet Union and its satellites; as well as within the Laws of China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam. With the end of the Cold War, most of these nations are incorporating laws compatible with private property and capitalism.
Law as academic discipline and profession
In addition to being part of the societal framework law is also an academic discipline and a profession. Lawyers are sometimes called by other names, as in England where the profession is divided between solicitors and barristers. Sometimes they are also called notaries. They are professionally trained in the United States at graduate schools of law leading to the J.D degree (Juris Doctor). In other countries legal education is considered to start at the undergraduate stage taught in faculty of law leading to the LL.B or B.C.L degrees. NOTE: In Canada at least, the LL.B. requires a previous undergraduate degree to study. Law is an undergraduate degree mainly in civil law countries. Most of these schools also have advanced legal degrees such as the LL.M and the J.S.D degrees. Many persons who attend law school never practice law but use their knowledge of law in another profession. See Law (academic) and jurisprudence For law as a profession, see lawyer, jurist and practice of law.
Further Discussion
Most laws and legal systems --at least in the Western world-- are quite similar in their essential themes, arising from similar values and similar social, economic, and political conditions, and they typically differ less in their substantive content than in their jargon and procedures.
One of the fundamental similarities across different legal systems is that, to be of general approval and observation, a law has to appear to be public, effective, and legitimate, in the sense that it has to be available to the knowledge of the citizen in common places or means, it needs to contain instruments to grant its application, and it has to be issued under given formal procedures from a recognized authority.
In the context of most legal systems, laws are enacted through the processes of constitutional charter, constitutional amendment, legislation, executive order, rulemaking, and adjudication; within Common law jurisdictions, rulings by judges are an important additional source of legal rules.
However, de facto laws also come into existence through custom and tradition. (See generally Consuetudinary law; Anarchist law.)
Law has an anthropological dimension. In order to have a culture of law, people must dwell in a society where a government exists whose authority is hard to evade and generally recognised as legitimate. People forego personal revenge or self-help and choose instead to take their grievances before the government and its agents, who arbitrate disputes and enforce penalties.
This behaviour is contrasted with the culture of honor, where respect for persons and groups stems from fear of the disproportionate revenge they may exact if their person, property, or prerogatives are not respected. Cultures of law must be maintained. They can be eroded by declining respect for the law, achieved either by weak government unable to wield its authority, or by burdensome restrictions that attempt to forbid behaviour prevalent in the culture or in some subculture of the society. When a culture of law declines, there is a possibility that an undesirable culture of honor will arise in its place.
A particular society or community adopts a specific set of laws to regulate the behavior of its own members, to order life in its political territory, to grant or acknowledge the rights and privileges of its citizens and other people who may come under the jurisdiction of its courts, and to resolve disputes.
There are several distinct laws and legal traditions, and each jurisdiction has its own set of laws and its own legal system. Individually codified laws are known as statutes, and the collective body of laws relating to one subject or emanating from one source are usually identified by specific reference. (E.g., Roman law, Common law, and Criminal law.)
Moreover, the several different levels of government each produce their own laws, though the extent to which law is centralized varies. Thus, at any one place there can be conflicting laws in force at the local, regional, state, national, or international levels.
(See conflict of laws, Preemption of State and Local Laws.)
Legal systems and traditions
Anarchist law - Canon law - Civil law - Common law - English Law - European Union Law - International law - Roman law - Scottish Law - Socialist law - Sharia (Islamic law)
Legal subject areas
Administrative law - Admiralty - Alternative dispute resolution - Appellate review - Civil procedure - Civil rights - Commercial law - Comparative law - Consuetudinary law - Contracts - Constitutional law - Courts of England and Wales - Corporations law - Criminal law - Criminal procedure - Environmental law - Equity - Evidence - Family law - Human rights - Immigration - Intellectual property - Jurisprudence - Law and economics - Law of Obligations - Labor law - Land use - List of items for which possession is restricted - Philosophy of law - Practice of law - Private law - Procedural law - Property law - Statutory law - Tax law - Torts - Trusts and Estates - Cyber law
Subjects Auxiliary to Law
Government - Legal history - Law and literature - Political science
Terms, case law, legislation and other resources
- Law topics overview
- List of jurists
- List of legal topics
- List of basic criminal justice topics
- List of international public law topics
- List of Supreme Court of Canada cases
- List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases
- List of United States Supreme Court cases
- List of leading legal cases in copyright law
- List of treaties
- List of Uniform Acts (United States)
- List of United States Federal Legislation
Legal books
- Black's Law Dictionary
- Halsbury's Laws of England
- Corpus Juris Secundum
- Recueil Dalloz
Further Reading
- Cheyenne Way: Conflict & Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence, Karl N. Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1983, trade paperback, 374 pages, ISBN 0806118555
- Other books by Karl N. Llewellyn
See also
- law (principle),
- religious law,
- legal code,
- natural law
External link
- Law & Legal News & Reference
- Directory and Engine to find lawyers by area of expertise and/or by location
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Please note: Wikipedia does not give legal advice, the information on this page is not necessarily 100% accurate.A lawsuit is an action or a suit brought before a court, as to recover a right, redress a grievance, obtain damages, an injunction or to obtain a declaratory judgment. It usually involves dispute resolution of private law issues between individuals, business entities or non-profit organizations, though in some jurisdictions it may involve public law issues.
In common law jurisdictions, the lawsuit begins with the issuance of a summons by the clerk of the court chosen by the plaintiff. It may also include a more detailed statement or pleading of the causes of action for which the plaintiff seeks damages or equitable relief.
Usually the papers are drawn by a lawyer, but in many courts a person can file papers and represent themselves, which is called appearing pro se. Many courts have a pro se clerk to assist people without lawyers.
The early stages of the lawsuit involve discovery or the exchange of documents and other evidence between the parties as well as the conducting of depositions. At this point the parties may also engage in pretrial motion practice in order to determine key issues before trial.
Once the case is ready for trial the parties will pick a jury and then have a trial by jury, unless the case involves equitable relief in which case it will be heard only by the judge.
All the procedures that govern the conduct of a lawsuit in the common law adversarial system of dispute resolution are known as civil procedure.
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Synonyms: LawsuitSynonyms: case (n), causa (n), cause (n), suit (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accusation | Denunciation, denouncement; libel, challenge, citation, arraignment; impeachment, appeachment; indictment, bill of indictment, true bill; lawsuit; condemnation. |
Lawsuit | Noun: lawsuit, suit, action, cause; litigation; suit in law; dispute. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lawsuit |
| English words defined with "lawsuit": amicus curiae, amicus curiae brief ♦ bastardy proceeding ♦ civil suit, class action, class-action suit, criminal suit ♦ friend of the court ♦ lis pendens, litigant, litigator ♦ open ♦ paternity suit, prevailing party ♦ The Adversary, To commit, To commit to memory ♦ undecided, undetermined, unresolved ♦ vouch in ♦ withers. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lawsuit": business and financial counsel ♦ Cleaned Out, corporate counsel ♦ judicial foreclosure ♦ Law and Lawsuits, LAWYER, CORPORATION ♦ National Forest Management Act of 1976 ♦ Paper or parchment, Peter Peebles ♦ reversed onus of proof ♦ structured settlement ♦ Writing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lawsuit": litigation. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Tyler was now involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel over the urine content of their soup (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) The only reason you were offered a job, is so that he can slither out of the lawsuit. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) I don't think it's going to help our lawsuit if you continue to st if you present the appearance of stalking him. (Hedwig and the Angry Inch; writing credit: John Cameron Mitchell; Stephen Trask) We've got the biggest damn lawsuit against this church for sending a bunch of minors out into the butt-freakin' amazon with absolutely no preparation for a disaster of this magnitude (Walkabout; writing credit: Martin David) | |
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George Herbert | A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Senegal | In 2000 the Council of State (the country's highest administrative court) ruled on an antidiscrimination lawsuit filed in 1999 by the National Association of Disabled People (ANHMS) against the regional educational board in the eastern province of Tambacounda. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Senegal | The Prime Minister's office dropped the lawsuit in February. (references) |
Botswana | In March after BTA threatened a lawsuit, the BTC agreed to provide the leased lines. (references) | |
Economic History | Moldova | Union Fenosa has filed a lawsuit over the action, but as of July 2001, the company has not gotten the money back. (references) |
Japan | Lawyers usually require large up-front payments from their clients before filing a lawsuit, with a modest contingency fee, if any, at the conclusion of litigation. (references) | |
Japan | A contract should be viewed as part of a greater effort to create an understanding of mutual obligations and expectations, rather than a tool in case of a lawsuit. (references) | |
Human Rights | Indonesia | The Jakarta district court dismissed the lawsuit for lack of evidence. (references) |
Hungary | The Rom filed a lawsuit against the officers; in October he withdrew the lawsuit. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | The lawsuit asks the court to rule on the constitutionality of these police courts; a decision still was pending at year's end. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | In 1998 the Supreme Court ruled against a lawsuit filed by environmental and indigenous organizations challenging the 1997 decree. (references) |
Canada | To address these sentiments and respond to a pending lawsuit, in 1998 the Quebec government agreed with the Cree and Mohawk tribes to initiate negotiations regarding longstanding grievances over timber resources, public rights of way on tribal lands, and management of development in the James Bay region. (references) | |
Minorities | France | In April the Church of Scientology was taken to court for fraud and false advertising in a lawsuit brought by three former members; the case remained pending at year's end. (references) |
Women | Taiwan | The law allows prosecutors to take the initiative in investigating complaints of domestic violence without waiting for a spouse to file a formal lawsuit. (references) |
Japan | In October a U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by 15 comfort women, ruling that U.S. courts do not have jurisdiction over claims arising from Japan's wartime conduct. (references) | |
Czech Republic | The concerns of women's groups over workplace sexual harassment previously were ignored or dismissed; however, in 1999 a university student became the first woman to win a civil sexual harassment lawsuit. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Russia | In June the workers filed a lawsuit and the local court confirmed their right to demonstrate peacefully in accordance with the law. (references) |
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Rush Limbaugh | What I do oppose is the notion that one lawsuit could wipe a company out and thereby prevent a company from ever going into business. |
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George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Many jobs are lost in America because government imposes unreasonable regulations, and many jobs are lost because the lawsuit culture of this country imposes unreasonable costs. |
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| "Lawsuit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.11% of the time. "Lawsuit" is used about 112 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.11% | 111 | 30,796 |
| Noun (common) | 0.89% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 112 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lawsuit": bring a lawsuit ♦ bring in a lawsuit ♦ carry on a lawsuit ♦ drop a lawsuit ♦ file a lawsuit against ♦ lose a lawsuit ♦ patent lawsuit ♦ settle a lawsuit ♦ win a lawsuit. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lawsuit | 778 | nursing home lawsuit | 48 |
lawsuit funding | 387 | file lawsuit sharing | 44 |
class action lawsuit | 276 | abercrombie lawsuit | 43 |
kazaa lawsuit | 257 | air bag lawsuit | 42 |
wrongful death lawsuit | 229 | tobacco lawsuit | 42 |
direct tv lawsuit | 198 | baycol lawsuit | 42 |
medical lawsuit | 142 | file a lawsuit | 38 |
medical malpractice lawsuit | 125 | stupid lawsuit | 37 |
asbestos lawsuit | 94 | fen phen lawsuit | 37 |
mesothelioma lawsuit | 86 | taco bell lawsuit | 37 |
frivolous lawsuit | 85 | malpractice lawsuit | 36 |
directv lawsuit | 73 | harry potter lawsuit | 35 |
personal injury lawsuit | 68 | sco lawsuit | 34 |
mcdonalds lawsuit | 65 | discrimination lawsuit | 34 |
civil lawsuit | 64 | lawsuit settlement | 34 |
lawsuit riaa | 57 | agent lawsuit orange | 32 |
mp3 lawsuit | 53 | filing a lawsuit | 31 |
wal mart lawsuit | 53 | meridia lawsuit | 30 |
abercrombie fitch lawsuit | 49 | fast food lawsuit | 30 |
paxil lawsuit | 48 | lawsuit poland spring | 29 |
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| Language | Translations for "lawsuit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | proses (action, process). (various references) | |
Albanian | proces (process, suit), procedim (procedure), proçes (process, suit), gjyq (court, court of law, forum, judgement-seat, judicature, judicial examination, process, suit, trial, tribunal). (various references) | |
Arabic | قضية (affair, issue), محاكمة (judgement, trial), شكوى (beef, claim, complaint, grievance, grouse, miserere, plaint, protest, railing, representation), دعوي قضائية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдебен процес (litigation). (various references) | |
Chinese | 诉讼 (litigation, litigator), 訴訟 , 官司 . (various references) | |
Czech | soudní pře (suit). (various references) | |
Danish | proces (action, process). (various references) | |
Dutch | rechtsgeding (action), proces (action, process), gerechtszaak (action), geding (action). (various references) | |
Esperanto | proceso. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرافعه (Case, Cross, Spat, Suit), طرح دعوی دردادگاه , دعوی (Case, Claim, Pretension, Quarrel), دادخواهی (Complaint). (various references) | |
Finnish | oikeusjuttu (case), oikeudenkäynti (action, proceedings, trial). (various references) | |
French | procès. (various references) | |
Frisian | rjochtsaak (action), proses (action, process). (various references) | |
German | Prozeß (action, litigation, process, trial), rechtsstreit (law suit, litigation). (various references) | |
Greek | δίκη (litigation, oyer, trial). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תביע" משפטית (action, legal claim), "ין (judgement, law, rule, sentence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | polgári per (civil action, civil suit, suit at law), per (action, action at law, cause, legal action, litigation, proceedings, suit), kereset (action at law, claim, earnings, income, legal action, living wage, makings, plaint, wages, work-income). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sengketa, aksi (action, boasting, bragging, pretense). (various references) | |
Italian | processo (action, case, law, proceedings, process, trial). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 訴訟 (litigation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おもてざた (publicity), そしょうじけ" (case), そしょう (boil, litigation, swelling), うったえ (complaint). (various references) | |
Korean | 소송 (litigation). (various references) | |
Manx | cooish leigh (trial), accan (complain, complaint, grumble, lamentation, moan). (various references) | |
Norwegian | rettsak. (various references) | |
Papiamen | proseso (action). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awsuitlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | processo (action, litigation, method, procedure, proceeding, process, system, trial). (various references) | |
Russian | судебный процесс (litigation, trial), тяжба (litigation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | parnica (case, litigation, suit). (various references) | |
Spanish | proceso (action, course, impeachment, proceedings, process, prosecution, trial), pleito (action, brawl, case, cause, complaint, controversy, dispute, quarrel, suit, trial). (various references) | |
Swedish | rättegång (action, assize, case, law suit, process, pursuit, suit, trial), process (action, case, litigation, operation, plea, process, trial), mål (aim, ambition, case, cockshot, cockshy, end, feed, goal, goals, home, idiom, meal, object, objective, quest, speech, target, tongue, trial, voice, vote, winning-post). (various references) | |
Thai | ค"ีความ. (various references) | |
Turkish | dava (action, case, cause, claim, instance, law, litigation, plea, pleading, process, prosecution, suit, trial). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | судочинство (judicature, jurisdiction, procedure, proceedings, process), судовий процес (action, litigation, plea). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | việc tố tụng, việc kiện cáo. (various references) | |
Welsh | cyngaws (action). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | di. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | causa, causae, causam, causas, causis, lis, lite, litem, lites. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | mal. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lawsuit": lawsuits. (additional references) | |
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"Lawsuit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lavski, Lawsonia, lawsonii, lawsuite, lawsuiti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lawsuit" (pronounced lô"suw't) |
| 3 | -s uw' t | countersuit, jumpsuit, pantsuit, spacesuit, swimsuit, wetsuit. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-s-t-u-w" | |
-2 letters: alist, litas, sault, swail, tails, talus, wails, waist, waits, wauls, wilts. | |
-3 letters: ails, aits, alit, alts, awls, last, lati, lats, laws, list, lits, litu, lust, sail, salt, sati, saul, sial, silt, slat, slaw, slit, staw, suit, swat, tail, tali, taus, taws, tils, tuis, twas, utas, wail, wait, wast, wats, waul, wilt, wist. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-s-t-u-w" | |
+1 letter: lawsuits. | |
+3 letters: outlawries. | |
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