Term: legal action: 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
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: toona: formerly included in genus Cedrela
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: batting average: (baseball) a measure of a batter's performance; the number of base hits divided by the number of official times at bat
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: fountain of youth: a fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: creeping soft grass: European perennial grass with soft velvety foliage
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: vinyl polymer: a thermoplastic derived by polymerization from compounds containing the vinyl group
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: phyllidae: leaf insects
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: control room: a room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio)
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: veneridae: hard-shell clams
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: arrangement: an organized structure for arranging or classifying
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: pill bug: small terrestrial isopod with a convex segmented body that can roll up into a ball