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.
Veure'n més 1 The Church authorities were scandalized and an action at law was the result.
2 They are no where equal parties in an action at law .
3 With the exception of Macedonia, no nation has ever established an action at law for ingratitude.
4 And what is even worse, you expose me to an action at law , with heavy damages.
5 Truly he loved fighting; but the boldest sailor bears away at prospect of an action at law .
6 Mr. Armstrong would have been liable to an action at law if he had refused to go.
7 The millers endeavoured by action at law to put down the society, but the attempt was successfully resisted.
8 It is easy to attack a public man in a journal, but the motives which can warrant an action at law must be serious.
9 But as there are plenty of them, I don't suppose the ground landlord will begin an action at law if I take one or two.
10 Passed by a Parliament held at Gloucester in 1278 and dealing with actions at law .
11 Let me tell you that you expose yourself to actions at law , pitching weights like this from a respectable house into a public street.
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Translations for action at law