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Legal action   /lˈigəl ˈækʃən/   Listen
Legal action

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: action, action at law.






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"Legal action" Quotes from Famous Books



... their country. The reason why the Revolution led to a military despotism was, that no party would tolerate its political foes, much less protect them in the exercise of the right of free discussion and legal action. The execution of Louis XVI. was but a solitary incident in the game that was played by the most excitable political gamblers that ever converted a nation into a card-table. He was slain, not so much because he was a king, or had been one, as because he was the natural chief ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 44, June, 1861 • Various



Words linked to "Legal action" :   civil action, prosecution, test suit, antitrust case, lis pendens, criminal prosecution, test case, law, action, proceedings, action at law, counterclaim, jurisprudence, custody case, proceeding, legal proceeding



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