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lawsuit
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lawsuit: see procedure procedure, in law, the rules that govern the obtaining of legal redress. This article deals only with civil procedure in Anglo-American law (for criminal procedure, see criminal law).
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; tort tort, in law, the violation of some duty clearly set by law, not by a specific agreement between two parties, as in breach of contract. When such a duty is breached, the injured party has the right to institute suit for compensatory damages.
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lawsuit
a proceeding in a court of law brought by one party against another, esp a civil action


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Various matters could be dealt with through civil actions.
Thus, such claims may be the subject of both workers' compensation proceedings and civil actions.
Daly is one of five men being sued in civil actions by relatives of the 29 people killed in the Real IRA bomb at Omagh in 1998.
 
 
 
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