petitioner (files a petition asking for a court ruling),
respondent (usually in opposition to a petition or an appeal),
cross-complainant (a defendant who sues someone else in the same lawsuit), or
cross-defendant (a person sued by a cross-complainant).[1]
A person who only appears in the case as a witness is not considered a party.
Courts use various terms to identify the role of a particular party in civil litigation, usually identifying the party that brings a lawsuit as the plaintiff, or, in older American cases, the party of the first part; and the party against whom the case was brought as the defendant, or, in older American cases, the party of the second part. In a criminal case in Nigeria and some other countries the parties are called prosecutor and defendant.
party, party, individual, group, individuals, that, compose, single, entity, which, identified, purposes, parties, include, plaintiff, person, filing, suit, defendant, person, sued, charged, with, crime, petitioner, files, petition, asking, court, ruling, resp. A party is an individual or group of individuals that compose a single entity which can be identified as one for the purposes of the law Parties include plaintiff person filing suit defendant person sued or charged with a crime petitioner files a petition asking for a court ruling respondent usually in opposition to a petition or an appeal cross complainant a defendant who sues someone else in the same lawsuit or cross defendant a person sued by a cross complainant 1 A person who only appears in the case as a witness is not considered a party Courts use various terms to identify the role of a particular party in civil litigation usually identifying the party that brings a lawsuit as the plaintiff or in older American cases the party of the first part and the party against whom the case was brought as the defendant or in older American cases the party of the second part In a criminal case in Nigeria and some other countries the parties are called prosecutor and defendant See also EditErga omnes Ex parte proceeding Inter partes proceeding Intervention law References Edit Lehman Jeffrey Phelps Shirelle 2005 West s Encyclopedia of American Law Vol 7 2 ed Detroit Thomson Gale p 374 ISBN 9780787663742 This legal term article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Party law amp oldid 1125288508, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
