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litigant

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1. litigant - Noun

2. litigant - Adjective

Meaning

Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.

A person engaged in a lawsuit.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There is no higher principle for the guidance of the Court than the one that no act of Courts should harm a litigant and it is the bounden duty of Courts to see that if a person is harmed by a mistake of the Court he should be restored to the position he would have occupied but for that mistake. Mohammad Hidayatullah

A litigant to winning so devotes his energies That he never gives his neighbours or himself a moment's rest, But for every other pleasure he has neither ears nor eyes. Pietro Nelli

FORMA PAUPERIS. Latin In the character of a poor person a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case. Ambrose Bierce

plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants Source: Internet

A corollary of this was that, at least acclaimed by defendants, if a court had made an unjust decision, it must have been because it had been misled by a litigant. Source: Internet

In-person court appearances shall be limited to only the litigant(s) and his/her attorney of record and the necessary court personnel. Source: Internet

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