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civil suit

NOUN
  1. a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant

How To Use civil suit In A Sentence

  • So language was crafted to protect residents against prosecution or a civil suit if they blast away at an intruder, as long as they think the intruder is about to commit a forcible felony. April 2005
  • Similarly, some justices bristled at the idea of using the Constitution to grant presidential immunity from civil suits.
  • The law I would be interested in seeing is one that would make employers accomplices to any other violations committed by an illegal alien in their employ – and make the employer liable in civil suits for all actions outside the workplace that involve liability. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Employer Enforcement On Immigration Comes To Arizona
  • This focuses attention on what in my view is the single important difference between judicial review and civil suit, the differing time limits.
  • Only a civil suit, at the very least, could wipe away the stain on family honour.
  • Only 42 civil suits resulted, with no verdicts in favor of the plaintiff.
  • Under the Torture Victim Protection Act, the two were charged in an unsuccessful civil suit with command responsibility for the abduction, rape, and murder of the four American churchwomen.
  • Only 42 civil suits resulted, with no verdicts in favor of the plaintiff.
  • She filed a civil suit against the retail giant -- a practice the consumer activist has made a habit.
  • In January, the lawyers filed a civil suit in a Rome tribunal seeking an injunction to suspend the project.
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