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Grievance :: Grievance (v. t.) A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury..

Lacrimoso :: Lacrimoso (a.) Plaintive; -- a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style.

Doloroso :: Doloroso (a. & adv.) Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.

Complainant :: Complainant (n.) The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law..

Arraignment :: Arraignment (n.) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint..

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..

Plaint :: Plaint (n.) Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament..

Homeopathy :: Homeopathy (n.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy..

Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (v. t.) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up..

Surrendered :: Surrejoinder (n.) The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

Complaint :: Complaint (n.) An ailment or disease of the body.

Complainant :: Complainant (n.) One who commences a legal process by a complaint.

Murmur :: Murmur (v. i.) A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice..

Non-pros :: Non-pros (v. t.) To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow to be dropped (said of a suit); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed..

Complainant :: Complainant (n.) One who makes complaint.

Arraign :: Arraign (v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

Declaration :: Declaration (n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3..

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..

Plaining :: Plaining (n.) Complaint.

Matter :: Matter (n.) That with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme..

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