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    ACTION AT LAW

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 wrongplay

    Synonyms:

    action; action at law; legal action

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("action at law" is a kind of...):

    legal proceeding; proceeding; proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)

    Domain category:

    jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "action at law"):

    antitrust case (a legal action brought against parties who are charged with limiting free competition in the market place)

    civil action (legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution))

    counterclaim (a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action)

    custody case (a legal action to determine custody (usually of children following a divorce))

    lis pendens (a pending lawsuit)

    criminal prosecution; prosecution (the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior)

    test case; test suit (a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent)

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