Assertion: plaintiff | /r/CapableOf | initiate lawsuit
Facets:
value: before a court
type: LOCATION
value: quite often
type: DEGREE
value: by filing a complaint
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.
text: The PLAINTIFF, is the aggrieved party who is initiating the lawsuit (i.e.- the one who is suing).
text: To begin a lawsuit, the plaintiff must file a complaint and a summons in the appropriate court.
text: A plaintiff starts a lawsuit by filing a complaint and serving the complaint and summons on the defendant (or defendants).
text: Quite often a plaintiff will start litigation because he heard the defendant comment casually as to his or her opinion as to what might happen and the plaintiff claims such opinion was intentionally wrong.
text: To have a trial at Small Claims Court, the plaintiff, who is the person starting the lawsuit, is responsible for delivering a copy of the Plaintiff’s Claim to the defendant.
text: A plaintiff, also known as a claimant or complainant, is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.
text: A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.
text: The Plaintiff is the person who brings an action in a court of law, or initiates a lawsuit.
text: Amendments are particularly commonplace in the United States, where Rule 15 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides that a plaintiff, or person initiating the lawsuit, may amend his complaint as a matter of course if the defendant, the party against whom the action is happening, has not filed an answer to the original complaint.