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Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.

Pursuit :: Pursuit (v. t.) Prosecution.

Pursuit :: Pursuit (v. t.) The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy..

Suit :: Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery..

Count :: Count (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution..

Information :: Information (v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment..

Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates..

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit..

Nolle Prosequi :: Nolle prosequi () Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants..

Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution..

Prosecutable :: Prosecutable (a.) Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Persecution :: Persecution (n.) A carrying on; prosecution.

Partnership :: Partnership (n.) An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership..

Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement..

Nolo Contendere :: Nolo contendere () A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution..

Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war..

Proceeding :: Proceeding (n.) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law.

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