suitor, party to a suit; plaintiff, defendant, litigant &c. 938.
     hearing, trial; verdict &c. (judgment) 480; appeal, appeal motion;
writ of error; certiorari[Lat].
     case; decision, precedent; decided case, reports (legal reference
works, see reference books). 
     V. go to law, appeal to the law; bring to justice, bring to trial,
bring to the bar; put on trial, pull up; accuse &c. 938; prefer a claim, file a claim &c.n.; take the law of, inform against.
     serve with a writ, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an
action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit; arrest; summon, summons; give in charge &c. (restrain) 751.
     empanel a jury, implead[obs3], join issue; close the pleadings; set
down for hearing.
     try, hear a cause; sit in judgment; adjudicate &c. 480. 
     Adj. litigious &c. (quarrelsome) 713; qui tam; coram judice[Lat], sub
judice[Lat]. 
     Adv. pendente lite[Lat]. 
     Phr. adhuc sub judice lis est[Lat]; accedas ad curiam[Lat]; transeat
in exemplum[Lat].

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     #970.  Acquittal.—­ N. acquittal, acquitment[obs3]; clearance,
exculpation; acquittance, clearance, exoneration; discharge &c. (release) 750; quietus, absolution, compurgation[obs3], reprieve, respite; pardon &c. (forgiveness) 918.
     [Exemption from punishment] impunity; diplomatic immunity; immunity;
plea bargain, deal with the prosecutor.
     [in civil suits] no cause for action; no damages. 
     V. acquit, exculpate, exonerate, clear; absolve, whitewash,
assoil[obs3]; discharge, release; liberate &c. 750.
     reprieve, respite; pardon &c. (forgive) 918; let off, let off scot-
free.
     drop the charges.
     plea bargain, strike a deal.
       no-cause[in civil suits][transitive]; get no-caused[intransitive]. 
     Adj. acquitted &c. v.; uncondemned, unpunished, unchastised.
     not guilty; not proven.
     not liable. 
     Phr. nemo bis punitur pro codem delicto[Lat][obs3].

     #971.  Condemnation.—­ N. condemnation, conviction, judgment, penalty,
sentence; proscription, damnation; death warrant.
     attainder, attainture[obs3], attaintment[obs3]. 
     V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom,
sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit[obs3].
     disapprove &c. 932; accuse &c. 938.
     stand condemned. 
     Adj. condemnatory, damnatory[obs3]; guilty, condemned &c.v.; nonsuited
&c. (failure) 732[obs3]; self-convicted. 
     Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur[Lat]; “unrespited, unpitied,
unreprieved” [P.L.].