demandant
Americannoun
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the plaintiff in a real action.
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any plaintiff.
noun
Etymology
Origin of demandant
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French demaundant, noun use of present participle of demaunder to demand; see -ant
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In civil cases, the combat was not allowed as the means of establishing the claim of the demandant; but he was obliged to produce witnesses who had, or assumed to have, knowledge of the fact.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman
The demandant is either the same coheir named above, viz.
From Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
In civil causes the combat was not allowed as the means of establishing the claim of the demandant; but he was obliged to produce witnesses, who had, or assumed to have, knowledge of the fact.
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
While giving a judgment on a writ of right, Lord Norbury observed that it was not sufficient for a demandant to say he "claimed by descent."
From Law and Laughter by George A. (George Alexander) Morton
And he laid the descent thus: 'From Robert descended the right, &c., to Adam the present demandant, as his youngest son and heir, according to the custom of such a place, &c.'
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
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