Definitions for litigant

litigant lit·i·gant

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

Litigant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in litigant (agiilntt).

Definitions for litigant

noun

  1. a person engaged in a lawsuit.

adjective

  1. litigating; engaged in a lawsuit.

Origin of litigant

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 litigant

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Every litigant was legally required to conduct his own case.

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.

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

Word Value for litigant
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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