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legal action

noun as in judicial proceeding

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We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind.

Eventually, she read into the ADA and wrote again, threatening legal action unless she was accommodated.

Perhaps the threat of legal action has also played a role in curbing the horde of dyspeptic deviants.

The patients and their estates agree not to bring legal action against caregivers, pharmaceutical companies, and insurers.

What better defense can there be against the threat of legal action than a full-court press at the very end?

This is the ordinary mode of beginning a legal action against a person or corporation.

They did not leave it to the States to carry out the legal action—the application of law to individuals—as the Confederacy did.

Otherwise he will get a fair compensation without any legal action whatever.

And this principle is admitted in civil law by making wages a first lien upon the product and exempting wages from legal action.

Now that they'd returned the ship in good condition, legal action against them would be dangerous.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to legal action, such as: lawsuit, legal proceeding, litigation, court case, and trial.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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