Definitions for litigants

litigants lit·i·gant

Spelling: [lit-i-guh nt]
IPA: /ˈlɪt ɪ gənt/

Litigants is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 332 anagrams from letters in litigants (agiilnstt).

Definitions for litigants

noun

  1. a person engaged in a lawsuit.

adjective

  1. litigating; engaged in a lawsuit.

Origin of litigants

1630-40; Latin lītigant- (stem of lītigāns, present participle of lītigāre to go to law), equivalent to līt- (stem of līs) a lawsuit + -ig- (combining form of agere to carry on) + -ant-

Examples for litigants

No litigant should be required to submit his case to the hazard and expense of a political campaign.

The man who becomes a client in the sense of litigant is an exception.

Every litigant was legally required to conduct his own case.

In such cases the litigant generally got all he claimed and the railroad was mulcted.

The worst cause cannot be so prejudicial to the litigant, as his advocate's or attorney's ignorance or neglect of these forms.

Judges are not required to step aside in cases in which they own bonds in one of the parties or receive royalties from a litigant.

No justice may take any gift except from the king nor give counsel to any litigant before him.

He assumed the rôle of a disinterested party, who, at the request of a litigant, agrees to become an impartial mediator.

He was preëminently the honest lawyer, the counsel fitted to serve the litigant who was justly entitled to win.

No counsel was, therefore, at hand to be employed in the defense of a prisoner or litigant.

Word Value for litigants
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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