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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
plaintiff
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
allow
▪ The revision would allow successful plaintiffs to keep enough of the award to pay their lawyers.
▪ Federal law allows plaintiffs to collect up to $ 100, 000 per infringement.
▪ Second, would it be an affront to the public conscience to allow the plaintiff to recover.
apply
▪ The plaintiff slipped and injured himself on an area of floor to which sawdust had not been applied.
▪ This is another case in which the Woolwich principle could readily have been applied in favour of the plaintiff had it existed.
▪ If the plaintiff is a visitor, then the 1957 Act will apply.
▪ This could apply where the plaintiff has made an unreasonable use of the product.
▪ Where the plaintiff was a visitor to the premises, the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 applies.
cause
▪ In law and in logic no damage can have been caused to the plaintiff before the plaintiff existed.
▪ That decision might be the same as the first one and cause the plaintiff the same loss.
entitle
▪ The Court of Appeal held that this was sufficient to entitle the plaintiffs to an interlocutory injunction.
hold
▪ It was held that the plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence.
▪ It was held that the plaintiff had to show it was more probable than not that the injury was due to faulty manufacture.
▪ It was held that if the plaintiff had used ordinary care the accident would not have happened.
▪ However, he held the plaintiff to be 100% contributorily negligent.
▪ But, it was held, the plaintiff was not affected by the undue influence.
injure
▪ An overwhelming desire to injure the plaintiff rather than to inform the public would have to be proved.
▪ The plaintiff fell through a roof and was injured.
▪ A stone fell and injured the plaintiff and he sued his employers for negligence.
pay
▪ It was in the light of that breach that the defendants had refused to pay the plaintiff any post-determination commission.
▪ In paying the fees the plaintiffs were aware of the pending appeal and paid under protest.
▪ When the property is sold, the amount of the debt is paid to the plaintiff out of the proceeds of sale.
▪ The moneys were paid over by the plaintiffs to avoid the apprehended consequence of a refusal to submit to the authority.
▪ This fact was reflected in the commission structure that the defendants agreed to pay the plaintiff.
prove
▪ The plaintiff had to prove that the breach of duty was at least a material contributory cause of the harm.
▪ The plaintiff must prove that but for the breach of statutory duty he would not have suffered the injury.
▪ It is also necessary for the plaintiff to prove causation.
▪ This is the exception, however, and normally the plaintiff must prove the negligent act or omission.
▪ The plaintiff must prove that the defendant fell below the relevant standard of care.
recover
▪ If the defence is successful then the plaintiff will recover no damages at all.
▪ Second, would it be an affront to the public conscience to allow the plaintiff to recover.
▪ Moreover, it is now well established that an injured plaintiff can recover for the unpaid services of a friend or relative.
▪ The plaintiff can only recover on the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of the defendant's.
▪ Two of his victims successfully sued him and the plaintiff then tried to recover the damages from the defendant.
▪ The plaintiffs failed to recover as no tangible injury had been done to their property - no apparatus had been damaged.
seek
▪ The plaintiffs had sought about 1.3 billion yen in compensation.
▪ In the civil case, the plaintiffs sought to shield him from such harsh treatment by limiting the scope of his testimony.
▪ The plaintiffs were seeking an injunction to stop a reference to an expert proceeding.
▪ The trial, in which the plaintiffs will seek yet-unspecified monetary damages, is scheduled to start April 2&038;.
▪ The plaintiffs seek to investigate what they consider to be a serious and complicated fraud.
suffer
▪ But these difficulties should not be exaggerated: most of them are, after all, suffered by the plaintiff as well.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is that legal fiction which the health authority relies upon in denying liability to the plaintiff.
▪ So the plaintiffs called Fung back on their rebuttal case to tell jurors he had goofed.
▪ Ten plaintiffs are suing the companies for damages from the blast.
▪ The plaintiffs devoted much of their rebuttal case Wednesday to damage control.
▪ The defendants supplied a chemical to the plaintiffs but failed to warn that it was liable to explode on contact with water.
▪ This could apply where the plaintiff has made an unreasonable use of the product.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plaintiff

Plaintiff \Plain"tiff\, n. [F. plaintif making complaint, plaintive; in Old French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See Plaint, and cf. Plaintive.] (Law) One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to defendant.

Plaintiff

Plaintiff \Plain"tiff\, a. See Plaintive. [Obs.]
--Prior.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plaintiff

c.1400, from Anglo-French pleintif (late 13c.), noun use of Old French plaintif "complaining; wretched, miserable," from plainte (see plaint). Identical with plaintive at first; the form that receded into legal usage retained the older -iff spelling.

Wiktionary
plaintiff

n. (context legal English) A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accusers.

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WordNet
plaintiff

n. a person who brings an action in a court of law [syn: complainant] [ant: defendant]

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Wikipedia
Plaintiff

A plaintiff ( Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court. By doing so, the plaintiff seeks a legal remedy, and if successful, the court will issue judgment in favor of the plaintiff and make the appropriate court order (e.g., an order for damages). "Plaintiff" is the term used in civil cases in most English-speaking jurisdictions, the notable exception being England and Wales, where a plaintiff is called a "claimant". In criminal cases, the prosecutor brings the case against the defendant, but the key complaining party is often called the "complainant".

In some jurisdictions the commencement of a lawsuit is done by filing a summons, claim form or a complaint. These documents are known as pleadings, that set forth the alleged wrongs committed by the defendant or defendants with a demand for relief. In other jurisdictions the action is commenced by service of legal process by delivery of these documents on the defendant by a process server; they are only filed with the court subsequently with an affidavit from the process server that they had been given to the defendant according to the rules of civil procedure.

Usage examples of "plaintiff".

The question presented was whether a judgment rendered by a New York court under a statute which provided that, when joint debtors were sued and one of them was brought into court on a process, a judgment in favor of the plaintiff would entitle him to execute against all, and so must be accorded full faith and credit in Louisiana when offered as the basis of an action in debt against a resident of that State who had not been served by process in the New York action.

The malpractice plaintiff attorney was a young, aggressive fellow named Matthew Davidson from a firm in St.

Sixth Cause of Action charges naked theft of characters and sequences to be found nowhere in material presented in discovery as from the public domain, in his Seventh Cause of Action which is against Kiester and his head writer Knize only, plaintiff claims misrepresentation, deceit and fraudulent conduct in the misappropriation and conversion of copyrighted material on deposit at certain public institutions, and of material obtained under false pretenses from plaintiff some years earlier.

They assigned two lawyers and a paralegal to prepare the class action and to go find some plaintiffs.

He then exhorted him, with many protestations of friendship, to compromise the unhappy affair by exchanging releases with the attorney before his delirium should be known, otherwise he would bring himself into a most dangerous premunire, whether the plaintiff should die of his wound, or live to prosecute him for assault.

I got home, Dolores was talking to the refrigerator, mumbling about the effect of a plaintiff from Wisconsin suing joint tortfeasors from Hawaii and New York in Nevada for negligently transplanting a kidney in Florida.

When Ted Worley signed at the bottom, he became the first Dyloft plaintiff in the country.

He announced that they had found in favour of the plaintiff, Sir Crispin Bellhanger, and awarded him 500,000 worth of damages.

Justice spoke for the Court as in the Slocum Case, it was held that a trial court had the right to enter a judgment on the verdict of the jury for the plaintiff after overruling a motion by defendant for dismissal on the ground of insufficient evidence.

The imputation that she had once invited him to tea was utterly without foundation and the fact that Miss Goldring lived in West Pursley while the plaintiff occupied a house in East was purely coincidental.

Grimani and informed him that you have not left the fort, and that you are even now detained in it, and that the plaintiff is at liberty, if he chooses, to send commissaries to ascertain the fact.

The jury nonetheless found for plaintiff and defendants appeal seeking a judgment N.

Issue of originality did apply plaintiff would lose since though defendants might have used the play they had taken only what the law allowed, that is, those general themes, motives or ideas where there could be no copyright and that in any case if they did copy this constituted fair use, embracing the famous dictum that even if a law does not apply, if it did the result would be thus.

In his Fifth Cause of Action plaintiff claims fraud and conspiracy between defendants Erebus and Kiester in the non-performance clause of their contract.

Wherefore the plaintiffs now sued for the recovery of the value of their whale, line, harpoons, and boat.