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  1. action at law love

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  1. n. 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

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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. proceeding
  1. proceedings
  1. legal proceeding

hyponyms (9)

Words that are more specific

  1. antitrust case
  1. counterclaim
  1. lis pendens
  1. criminal prosecution
  1. civil action
  1. test suit
  1. custody case
  1. prosecution
  1. test case

reverse dictionary (227)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. defense
  2. judgment
  3. law
  4. criminal
  5. de minimis non curat lex
  6. will
  7. legal
  8. limitation
  9. offense
  10. specification
  11. local
  12. guilt
  13. chose in action
  14. turpis causa
  15. narratio
  16. non prosequitur
  17. camorrism
  18. co-respondent
  19. lawsuit
  20. case
  21. amora
  22. ordinance
  23. assumpsit
  24. cumulation
  25. declaration
  26. dispensation
  27. legislation
  28. pledge
  29. qui tam
  30. reduce
  31. rejoinder
  32. replevin
  33. replication
  34. psychophysics
  35. unity
  36. wrong
  37. doe, john
  38. demurrer
  39. audita querela
  40. cross-action
  41. abate
  42. action
  43. cumulate
  44. declarator
  45. departure
  1. detinet
  2. forthcoming
  3. hypothecary
  4. in personam
  5. joinder
  6. plea
  7. protestation
  8. reconvention
  9. replevy
  10. -ee
  11. libellee
  12. debt
  13. declare
  14. derogate
  15. break
  16. lawful age
  17. demurrant
  18. demurrer-book
  19. excusator
  20. nul disseizin
  21. nul tort
  22. nul waste
  23. taxation of costs
  24. tenuit
  25. misjoinder
  26. non assumpsit
  27. non cepit
  28. non detinet
  29. nonjoinder
  30. nontenure
  31. remissio injuriæ
  32. reprobator
  33. resummons
  34. retraxit
  35. condiction
  36. consumption
  37. in rem
  38. arraign
  39. cassetur breve
  40. compearance
  41. compearer
  42. counterattraction
  43. demandant
  44. detinue
  45. ecbasis
  1. habere facias possessionem
  2. immorality
  3. improbation
  4. induciæ
  5. lawfulness
  6. defendant
  7. discovery
  8. discontinuance
  9. disbar
  10. ejectment
  11. exception
  12. recrimination
  13. nonappearance
  14. merger
  15. interlocutory
  16. injunction
  17. relator
  18. trover
  19. gist
  20. pleading
  21. retroaction
  22. federal case
  23. actionable
  24. amicable action
  25. action on the case
  26. writ of error
  27. tort
  28. bill of particulars
  29. all-or-none
  30. acceptance
  31. plaintiff
  32. suspect
  33. bar
  34. caption
  35. cause
  36. complaint
  37. conspiracy
  38. defend
  39. docket
  40. discontinue
  41. dismiss
  42. duty
  43. fine
  44. remit
  45. proceed
  1. proceeding
  2. petition
  3. taking
  4. settle
  5. justify
  6. libel
  7. sue
  8. prescription
  9. intent
  10. review
  11. obligation
  12. stale
  13. prosecute
  14. venue
  15. lynching
  16. civil wrong
  17. complainant
  18. moral
  19. perpetual motion
  20. pac
  21. legal person
  22. principle
  23. final process
  24. common recovery
  25. suspension
  26. wager of law
  27. advocate
  28. against
  29. age-prayer
  30. appraise
  31. arrentation
  32. assets
  33. assign
  34. attachment
  35. avow
  36. avowry
  37. avulsion
  38. border-warrant
  39. brief
  40. capias
  41. close
  42. colloquium
  43. commence
  44. controversy
  45. count
  1. defender
  2. demolition
  3. essoin
  4. exhibit
  5. exhibition
  6. falsehood
  7. gravamen
  8. indict
  9. in forma pauperis
  10. information
  11. infringe
  12. inquest
  13. inquisition
  14. lay
  15. license
  16. lie
  17. litigiosity
  18. maxim
  19. mistake
  20. natural
  21. necessarianism
  22. nolle prosequi
  23. nullification
  24. panel
  25. peremptory
  26. petitory
  27. pone
  28. production
  29. proffer
  30. pursuer
  31. quarrel
  32. record
  33. redhibition
  34. reduction
  35. revive
  36. rout
  37. scandal
  38. sinfulness
  39. subornation
  40. suit
  41. accelerometer
  42. liberal-legal
  43. secta
  44. taxable
  45. threat
  1. transference
  2. undertaking

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