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ACTION AT LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
Synonyms:
action; action at law; legal action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("action at law" is a kind of...):
legal proceeding; proceeding; proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "action at law"):
antitrust case (a legal action brought against parties who are charged with limiting free competition in the market place)
civil action (legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution))
counterclaim (a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action)
custody case (a legal action to determine custody (usually of children following a divorce))
lis pendens (a pending lawsuit)
criminal prosecution; prosecution (the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior)
test case; test suit (a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent)
