What is the difference between sued and defendant?
sued | defendant |
(sue)
To follow.
* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
(label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
(label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
To clean (the beak, etc.).
To leave high and dry on shore.
To court.
(legal) In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.
(legal) In criminal proceedings, the accused.
Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.
* Shakespeare
As a verb sued
is (sue).As a noun defendant is
(legal) in civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.As a adjective defendant is
serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.sued
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *sue
English
Verb
- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
- though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "sue")Derived terms
* sue for peaceAnagrams
* * ----defendant
English
(wikipedia defendant)Alternative forms
* defendaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (in civil proceedings) plaintiff * (in criminal proceedings) prosecutorHypernyms
* litigantAdjective
(en adjective)- With men of courage and with means defendant .
