No litiganthad cause to regret his success, since it came to him unbought.
The more seldom the litigant is seen in your presence the greater is your renown.
Should any litigantbe so dishonest and so irreverent, both towards the Holy See and our authority, as to disregard this order [and proceed first in our tribunals against one of the Roman clergy], he shall forfeit 10 lbs.
It was an oath tendered by one litigant party to the opposite, in hopes that the latter would refuse to take it; if taken, it had the effect of a judgment in favor of the swearer.
For, if a litigant has indulged in the luxury of an unusual array of counsel, he must do so at his own expense, and the Master allows only what he should have laid out in fees.
If a litigant has incurred expense to obtain a judgment for a sum of money, then he must be reimbursed by the other side who occasioned his outlay by refusal to pay.
No justice may take any gift except from the king nor give counsel to any litigant before him.
The heavy fines by the Star Court put an end to conspiracies to defraud, champerty [an agreement with a litigant to pay costs of litigation for a share in the damages awarded], livery, and maintenance.
This advantage was enhanced by the disposition of the Court, in litigation embracing the latter type of legislation, to shift the burden of proof from the litigant charging unconstitutionality to the State seeking enforcement.
Moreover, if a State court errs in deciding what the common law is, without, however, denying any constitutional right, the litigant adversely affected is not deprived of any liberty or property without due process of law.
Hence that Vyavahara which is characterised by a belief in either of two litigant parties has also flowed from him.
That Vyavahara which has, as above, been said to be characterised by a belief in either of two litigant parties, should be known by us as inhering in the king.
If the litigant can write (though comparatively few of the people of Weihaiwei can do so) he is allowed to state his case in the form of a written petition.
At present every litigant who cannot write and has no literary relative who will oblige him by drawing up a petition for him, simply comes into the court when and how he likes and makes his statement by word of mouth.
A litigant also tries to ingratiate himself with the magistrate by an affectation of extreme humility.
No litigant neglects an opportunity of showing that he possesses each and all of these qualities; and sometimes it is done cleverly and with an appearance of artlessness.
It was left optional with a litigant from the provinces to appeal to the local Sanhedrin or to one of the Minor Sanhedrins in Jerusalem.
The rule of separation is, however, generally optional with the litigant and discretionary with the court; the ruling of the court being usually reversed only in case of abuse of discretion.
I believe that this undesirable result can be in large measure avoided by eliminating arbitrators of the litigant nations.
But what most surprised Mr. Bumpkin, and drew tears from Mrs. Bumpkin’s eyes, was when the successful litigantenquired how the bull was.
All litigant parties to assemble on Areopagus, where Justice will assign the juries and preside over the trials in person.
Who is culpable of the crime of corruption--the judge whose surroundings put his justice at auction, or the litigant thus constrained to scatter gold about the judge?
The British magistrates are called upon to decide such trumpery questions that if a litigant were to submit them to a Chinese tribunal the magistrate would probably order him to be flogged for needlessly stirring up litigious strife.
Show me the man, and I will show you the law," one is reported to have said, meaning that the litigant with the longest purse was pretty certain to win his case in the long run.
Years passed and still cases remained undecided, some even were passed on from one generation to another--a litigant by his will handing on his plea in the Court to his successor along with his estate.
The lawyer knew not only that the hierarchy would deprive him of all his Mormon clients, but that it would make him so unpopular with courts and juries that no Gentile litigant would dare employ him.
Even then one must take pains not to assume airs, or the next time one is litigant before the dicastery, the insinuation of "an undemocratic, oligarchic manner of life" will win very many adverse votes among the jury.
Iphicrates, whose words have carried such weight now, may soon be howled down and driven from the Bema much as was the unfortunate litigant in the jury court.
Every litigant was legally required to conduct his own case.
I accepted his invitation, and there, indeed, were the rival advocates laughing, gesticulating, and presumably cogitating how they could plunder the litigant who had most money to spend.
Every litigant who maintains his right, whether as plaintiff or defendant, renders very much the same service to the public which we often hear applauded on the part of persons who "come forward to prosecute" in criminal or misdemeanour cases.
Certainly, and if a litigant please, he or she (for sex makes no difference) can become his or her own advocate.
Not invariably, because a litigant may have odd views about the importance of evidence and the time of professional advisers.
When a litigant prefers to conduct a case in person, does the proceeding invariably save expense?
When a litigant is afflicted with this lack of knowledge what is the customary result?
Whenever any litigant felt that there was any matter in dispute which needed adjustment by some outside agency, he invited the other party to come to the court.
The man who becomes a client in the sense of litigant is an exception.
The judge received the larger share of this amount, and some was paid to the witnesses of the one who won the suit, while the poor litigant received the least.
The greater part of it went to the judges of the case, and to pay the witnesses on the victorious side; while the poor litigant had the least of all, being content with only the glory of victory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "litigant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
