commence an action

Rule 1.03 defines plaintiff as "a person who commences an action".

The Court found that, in any case, the plaintiffs had inordinately delayed commencing an action.

He commenced an action for damages against Foote, but the affair seems to have ended there.

On the limitations issue it was held that the plaintiffs were not statute-barred from commencing an action.

In 1988 the plaintiff commenced an action for damages on the ground of negligence against the defendant health authority.

If he is not, you must get what you can of the money, for I have too much business on hand at present to commence an action.

"We are going to take steps to commence an action for the collection of approximately $174,000 in taxes that are due to us," he said.

While this proceeding was pending, the national chain commenced an action in the United States District Court.

So bitter was the animosity between these two men that Hopkins commenced an action for slander against Ward, putting damages at 40,000 pounds.

Apple reserves the right to void the license should the licensee "commence an action for patent infringement against Apple".

Alternatively, Mr. Edelstein said, the landlord can commence an action based on the constant flow of traffic into a building.

This voluntary extension shall not constitute a waiver of the right of the requester ultimately to commence an action in a United States district court.

The name was borrowed from the Roman law where a pleading known as the libellus conventionis was employed to commence an action.

Once the copyright owner commences an action with the court, Rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure applies.

The Board commenced an action in the Exchequer Court of Canada to recover the value of such grain, which was calculated to be $43,431.

Furthermore, please note that Mr Eric Lux does not exclude commencing an action against any other persons involved in this matter."

In the agreement, signed on Sept. 1, 1998, they promised not to make a claim under the state's equitable distribution law "should either party commence an action for divorce within one year."

Mr. Schmidt appealed the decision of the Board of Inquiry, by commencing an action before the Court of Queen's Bench, Alberta.

If the landlord refuses to grant a reasonable request for a sublet, Ms. Barrack said, a tenant can commence an action against the landlord in State Supreme Court.

At four in the afternoon Pitt was close enough to the privateer to commence an action that lasted a little over half an hour before the privateer sailed away towards Ochoa.

Meanwhile the Earl of Montagu had commenced an action against him to recover the profits of the office of wardrobe, for which he held a life patent for the place.

After this I commenced an action for libel, but as I was absent through circumstances over which I had no control when it came on for trial, the case was dismissed.

For example, in some jurisdictions a public entity has standing to commence an action to condemn private property only if it is able to demonstrate that it could not reach a resolution with the property owner.

The buyer, Denver oilman and gun collector John J. King, commenced an action in federal court in May 1965 for the recovery of the weapons from possession of the U.S. government.

Civil suits, however, were undertaken on the basis of over-charging licence fees In 2002, an Edmonton prostitute commenced an action against the City, demanding it lower the license fee for escorts from $1,600.