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libellant|ˈlaɪbələnt|
Also libelant.
[f. libel v. + -ant; after appellant, defendant, etc.]
1. Law. One who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. Also as adj.
1726Ayliffe Parergon 352 The party Libellant seems to confess whatever is contain'd within the compass and Words of his Libel. Ibid., If the Libellant propounds any thing in his Libel which makes against himself, he must abide by it. 1804–17W. Cranch Rep. (Webster 1828), The counsel for the libelant contended [etc.]. 1874Deady in Law Times Rep. XXXI. 201/1 The libellants shipped on the Hermine..as ordinary seamen. 1890Law Times LXXXIX. 164/1 Successful libellants in a collision suit.
2. One who publishes a libel; a libeller.
In some recent Dicts. |