noun
definition
A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit.
adjective
definition
Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit.
example
the parties litigant
Examples of litigant in a Sentence
If the law helped a litigant to make his case, fine.
His/her fate would be no different from that of a conventional legally aided litigant in modern times.
In particular, the costs to be allowed to a solicitor litigant in person are to be subject to the two thirds restriction.
From the point of view of the unsuccessful litigant, trial by witnesses must have been unsatisfactory at the best of times.
But it means that a successful litigant will not receive all the money which he or she has been awarded.
However, subject to that, they will do their best to assist any litigant.
In the Amisgerichi a private litigant may conduct his own case; but where the object of the litigation exceeds 300 marks (g15), and in appeals from the Amisgerichi to the Land gericht, the plaintiff (and also the defendant) must be represented by an advocate Rechtsanwalt.
In the matter of criminal jurisdiction we paused for a moment at the edict of Milan; but we may at once trace this second or civil branch of episcopal judicature or quasi-judicature down as far as the reign of Charlemagne, when it underwent a fundamental change, and became, if either litigant once chose, no longer a matter of consent but of right.
By a capitulary he provided that either litigant, without the consent of the other party, and not only at the beginning of a suit but at any time during its continuance, might take the cause from lay cognizance and transfer it to the bishop's tribunal.