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party – a natural person or artificial person interested in the outcome of litigation, who may or may not be a party of record, &/or a person who has engaged in a transaction.
- natural person – a human being.
- artificial Person – has rights but not privileges or immunities, and may be held liable. (i.e. – corporations, governmental bodies). — aka fictitious person; juristic person; juridical person; legal person; moral person.
litigant – the plaintiff or defendant in a court action.
Definitions for
Types of Litigants on the Offense:
plaintiff – a party who brings a civil suit in a court of law.
complainant – a person who files a formal accusation of a crime or a plaintiff in a civil suit (court of equity).
petitioner – a party who presents a petition to a court or other official body, especially when seeking relief.
appellant – a party who appeals a lower court’s decision, usually seeking reversal of that decision.
Definitions for
Types of Litigants on the Defense:
defendant – a person sued in a civil proceeding or accused in a criminal proceeding.
respondant – the party against whom an appeal is taken to a higher court; the appellee or the defendant in a suit in equity.
third-party defendant – a party brought into a lawsuit by the original defendant.
appellee – a party against whom an appeal is taken from a lower court to a higher court & whose role is to respond to that appeal.
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All short descriptions of legal terms found throughout this page were compiled using
- Ballantine’s Law Dictionary Legal Assistant Edition by Jack Ballantine (James Arthur 1871-1949). Doctored by Jack G. Handler, J.D. © 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning. ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.
- Black’s Law Dictionary Deluxe Tenth Edition by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4
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