ACTION AT LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does action at law mean? 

• ACTION AT LAW (noun)
  The noun ACTION AT LAW has 1 sense:

1. a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

  Familiarity information: ACTION AT LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACTION AT LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

action; action at law; legal action

Hypernyms ("action at law" is a kind of...):

legal proceeding; proceeding; proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "action at law"):

antitrust case (a legal action brought against parties who are charged with limiting free competition in the market place)

civil action (legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution))

counterclaim (a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action)

custody case (a legal action to determine custody (usually of children following a divorce))

lis pendens (a pending lawsuit)

criminal prosecution; prosecution (the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior)

test case; test suit (a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent)