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.
Examples of litigants in a Sentence
The proposals will allow county court litigants to send money direct to the CFO.
It is planning to establish a call center by October to provide more potential litigants.
Or that there might be a perception of unfairness if former judges represented litigants in court.
The Certification Officer is given powers to deal with vexatious litigants.
Unrepresented litigants are advised that help with their application may be available from the Citizens ' Advice Bureau at the Royal Courts of Justice.
One reason for my success in seeing off potential litigants is that I don't like to go into print without checking my facts.
It would be detrimental, if not devastating, to our system of justice and unfair to private litigants.
The only people who would still be allowed to lodge paper documents would be party litigants.
From 1293 onward Philip and his sons had been striving to make an end of the power of the Plantagenets in Aquitaine, sometimes by the simple argument of war, more frequently by the insidious process of encroaching on ducal rights, summoning litigants to Paris, and encouraging local magnates and cities alike to play off their allegiance to their suzerain against that to their immediate lord.
Except where the litigants and witnesses are German, the Serbo-Croatian language is used.
Another concession which Henry was forced to make was that the appeals to Rome of litigants in ecclesiastical suits should be freely permitted, provided that they made an oath that they were not contemplating any wrong to the English crown or the English church, a sufficiently easy condition.
The royal courts are no longer to attend the kings persona vexatious practice when sovereigns were always on the move, and litigants and witnesses had to follow them from manor to manorbut are to be fixed at Westminster.
This rule was applied even where both litigants were " spiritual."
Thus the money deposited by each of two litigants in a sacred precinct or with a priest, was called a sacrament.
The two courts would have separate spheres of activity, and litigants would practically have the option of submitting their differences to a judicial court which would regard itself as being bound by the letter of the law and by judicial methods or to a special court created ad hoc with a purely arbitrative character.
The cancelli, the lattice or bar, which in the civil tribunal had divided the court from the litigants and the public, now served to separate clergy and laity.
In its vicinity the praetor's tribunal, removed from the comitium in the 2nd century B.C., held its sittings, which led to the place becoming the haunt of litigants, money-lenders and business people.
I don't see how telling us what the case is about, who the litigants are and who's the attorney compromises anything.