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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnɒns(j)uːt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈnɑnsut/
• ハイフネーション: non‧suit

名詞

nonsuit (plural nonsuits) (law)

1. A lawsuit that is dismissed as having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits.
2. A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “Where a Man shall be Put of Answer in Criminal and Capital Offenses without Indictment at the King’s Suit”, in Sollom Emlyn, editor, Historia Placitorum Coronæ: The History of the Pleas of the Crown, […], volume II, In the Savoy [London]: […] E[lizabeth] and R[ichard] Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.), for F. Gyles […], T. Woodward […], and C. Davis […], published 1736, →OCLC, page *149:

     [A]ltho the party be indicted as vvell as appeald, yet upon the nonſuit of the plaintiff, the proceeding for the king ſhall not be upon the indictment, but upon the appeal.

別の表記

• non-suit

動詞

nonsuit (third-person singular simple present nonsuits, present participle nonsuiting, simple past and past participle nonsuited)

1. (transitive, law) To dismiss (a suit or plaintiff) on the grounds of his or her lawsuit having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “Where a Man shall be Put of Answer in Criminal and Capital Offenses without Indictment at the King’s Suit”, in Sollom Emlyn, editor, Historia Placitorum Coronæ: The History of the Pleas of the Crown, […], volume II, In the Savoy [London]: […] E[lizabeth] and R[ichard] Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.), for F. Gyles […], T. Woodward […], and C. Davis […], published 1736, →OCLC, page *149:

     [W]here an appeal is brought at the ſuit of the party, and the plaintiff is nonſuit upon that appeal, yet the offender ſhall be arraigned at the king's ſuit upon ſuch appeal; […]

     An adjective use.

   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter XV, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     In short, the attorney was nonsuited, to the satisfaction of all who knew him […] .

   • c. 1821, Zephaniah Swift, The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut:

     he shall be nonsuited , and pay cost to the defendant

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