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
Example Sentences
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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 Bell, George
If the demandant or plaintiff, hanging his writ, will enter into the thing demanded, his writ shall abate.
From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.
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 Milman, Henry Hart
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 Morton, George A. (George Alexander)
At the Durham Assizes, on August 6, 1638, a wager of battel was offered and accepted, for deciding the rights to land at Thickley, between Ralph Claxton, demandant, and Richard Lilburne, tenant.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
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