litigant

A JUDGE who had for years looked in vain for an opportunity for infamous distinction, but whom no litigant thought worth bribing, sat one day upon the Bench, lamenting his hard lot, and threatening to put an end to his life if business did not improve.

[Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Would you say `most,' I replied, when you consider that there is a further stage of the evil in which a man is not only a life-long litigant, passing all his days in the courts, either as plaintiff or defendant, but is actually led by his bad taste to pride himself on his litigiousness; he imagines that he is a master in dishonesty; able to take every crooked turn, and wriggle into and out of every hole, bending like a withy and getting out of the way of justice: and all for what?--in order to gain small points not worth mentioning, he not knowing that so to order his life as to be able to do without a napping judge is a far higher and nobler sort of thing.

The chances were that May, who knew nothing of his professional life, and had never shown any interest in it, would not learn of the postponement, should it take place, nor remember the names of the litigants if they were mentioned before her; and at any rate he could no longer put off seeing Madame Olenska.

Around four of the pillars, stalls of merchants, all sparkling with glass and tinsel; around the last three, benches of oak, worn and polished by the trunk hose of the litigants, and the robes of the attorneys.

Iqbal Ansari, son of Hashim Ansari, who was the main litigant in the Babri dispute case, however, told Gulf News on Saturday that his lawyers have instructed him not to attend.

Another litigant Asma Naz, resident of Pirwadhai, said that her son was facing a trial in a fight case but police were unable to produce him in the court because of agitation of lawyers.

Litigant James Mayaka says disappearance of the file has slowed efforts to recover part of the remaining dowry and other costs the court ordered his estranged wife Esther Kerubo to pay.

(29) Ability-to-pay determinations therefore primarily arise when a court finds itself in the position of resolving whether it may permissibly enforce a prior court order directing a litigant to pay a fine.

However the affair took another twist when it came out that the lawyer of the litigant who complained against the judge, was Christos Clerides, who happens to be the first cousin of the attorney-general.

Mahant Dharam Dass of Nirwani Akhara, a litigant in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi title suit, said that the matter is with the Supreme Court and hence, the VHP's one-day meet is of no importance.

Any litigant is here who has any issue related to fundamental rights?