Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.
Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.
A person engaged in a lawsuit.
Such as can be litigated.
To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.
To carry on a suit by judicial process.
of Litigate
The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.
One who litigates.
Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.
Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.
Of or pertaining to legal disputes.
The state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.
To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.
To seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law.
To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot.
To follow after.
To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses.
of Prosecute
The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.
The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.
The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.
The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted.