Action

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Action in Asia

Definition of Action in Action in the Legal Dictionary. See encyclopedic entry about Action In the Legal Wiki Encyclopedia: Action.

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Action: (Performance), noun

  • accomplishment
  • achievement
  • administration
  • carrying out
  • concrete results
  • consummation
  • course of conduct
  • discharge
  • doing
  • effectuation
  • enforcement
  • execution
  • factum
  • implementation
  • line of action foreign phrases: Non quod dictum est
  • sed quod factum est inspicitur
  • Not what is said
  • but what is done
  • is to be regarded
  • Factum cuiquesuum
  • non adversario
  • nocere debet
  • A man’s own acts should prejudice himself
  • not his adversary
  • Factum infectum fieri nequit
  • A thing which has been done cannot be undone
  • Les lois ne se chargent de punir que les actions extĂ©rieures
  • Laws do not assume to punish other than overt acts

Action: (Proceeding), noun

  • actio
  • action at law
  • case
  • cause
  • cause in court
  • court proceeding
  • formal prosecution
  • hearing
  • hearing on the merits
  • judicial contest
  • judicial proceeding
  • lawsuit
  • legal action
  • legal contest
  • legal proceeding
  • lis
  • litigation
  • litigation of the charges
  • prosecution
  • suit
  • suit at law
  • suit in law
  • trial
  • trial of a case
  • trial of the issues
  • Associated Concepts: abatement
  • action arising under the laws of the United States
  • action at law
  • action brought
  • action by one party against another
  • action ex delicto
  • action ex parte
  • action for a declaratory judgment
  • action for bodily injury
  • action for breach of a contract
  • action for damages
  • action for deceit
  • action for disparagement
  • action for dissolution
  • action for divorce
  • action for fraud
  • action for injury to property
  • action for liquidated damages
  • action for misrepresentation
  • action for money damages
  • action for rescission and restitution
  • action for recovery of chattel
  • action in assumpsit
  • action in conversion
  • action in detinue
  • action in ejectment
  • action in equity
  • action in interpleader
  • action in personam
  • action in quantum meruit
  • action in rem
  • action in replevin
  • action in tort
  • action in trespass
  • action in trover
  • action of foreclosure
  • action of garnishment
  • action on a contract
  • action on a debt
  • action on account rendered
  • action on contract
  • action quasi in rem
  • action to quiet title
  • action to remove a cloud
  • affirmative action
  • chose in action
  • civil action
  • class action
  • commence an action
  • consolidation
  • continuance of action on submitted facts
  • criminal action
  • cross action
  • derivative action
  • independent actions
  • joinder of actions
  • joint action
  • legal action
  • local actions
  • main action
  • pending action
  • right of action
  • severance of actions
  • stockholders’ action
  • thirdparty action
  • foreign phrases: EX nudopacto non oritus nascitur actio
  • No action arises on a contract without a consideration
  • No action arises on a contract without a consideration
  • Cum actio fuerit mere criminalis
  • institui poterit ab initio criminalitĂ© r vel civiliter
  • When an action is merely criminal
  • it can be instituted either criminally or civilly at the outset
  • In rem actio est per quam rem nostram quae ab alio possidetur petimus
  • et semper adversus eum est qui rem possidet
  • An action in rem is one by means of which we seek our property which is owned by another
  • consolidation
  • continuance of action on submitted facts
  • criminal action
  • cross action
  • derivative action
  • independent actions
  • joinder of actions
  • joint action
  • legal action
  • local actions
  • main action
  • multiplicity of actions
  • pending action
  • right of action
  • severance of actions
  • stockholders’ action
  • thirdparty action
  • foreign phrases: EX nudopacto non oritus nascitur actio
  • No action arises on a contract without a consideration
  • Cum actio fuerit mere criminalis
  • institui poterit ab initio criminalitĂ© r vel civiliter
  • When an action is merely criminal
  • it can be instituted either criminally or civilly at the outset
  • In rem actio est per quam rem nostram quae ab alio possidetur petimus
  • et semper adversus eum est qui rem possidet
  • An action in rem is one by means of which we seek our property which is owned by another
  • and is always against him who possesses tne property
  • Actio quaelibet it sua via
  • Every action proceeds in its own course
  • Secta est pugna civilis; sicut adores armantur actionibus
  • et
  • quasi
  • gladiis accinguntur
  • ita rei muniuntur exceptionibus
  • et defenduntur
  • quasi
  • clypeis
  • A suit is a civil battle; for as the plaintiffs are armed with actions
  • and as it were
  • girded with swords
  • so the defendants are fortified with pleas
  • and defended
  • as it were
  • by shields
  • Remoto impedimento
  • emergit actio
  • The impediment being removed
  • the action emerges
  • Omnis quereia et omnis actio injuriarum limita est infra certa tempora
  • Ever)’ complaint and every action for injuries is limited within certain times
  • Omnesactiones in mundo infra certa tempora habent limitationem
  • A personal action dies with the person
  • Ex tupi causanon oritur actio
  • No cause of action arises out of an immoral or illegal considertion

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Action in Other Legal Encyclopedias

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