A plaintiff, also known as a claimant or complainant, is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court. By doing so, the plaintiff seeks a legal remedy, and if successful, the court will issue judgment in favour of the plaintiff and make the appropriate court order (eg. an order for damages).
In some jurisdictions the commencement of a lawsuit is done by filing a summons, claim form and/or a complaint — these documents are known as pleadings — that set forth the alleged wrongs committed by the defendant or defendants with a demand for relief. In other jurisdictions the action is commenced by service of legal process by delivery of these documents on the defendant by a process server; they are only filed with the court subsequently with an affidavit from the process server that they had been given to the defendant(s) according to the rules of civil procedure.
Not all lawsuits are plenary actions, involving a full trial on the merits of the case. There are also simplified procedures, often called proceedings, in which the parties are termed petitioner instead of plaintiff, and respondent instead of defendant. There are also cases that do not technically involve two sides, such as petitions for specific statutory relief that require judicial approval; in those cases there are no respondents, just a petitioner.
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Meta Description: [ Anastasia, intro aux révolutions russes / intro to Russian revolutions, le massacre d'Ekaterinbourg / the butchery of Ekaterinbourg, l'histoire d'Anna Anderson / the story of Anna Anderson ]
Anastasia - Article supporting the claim that Anna Anderson was in reality the Grand Duchess Anastasia.
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Meta Description: [ The last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II; his family; and the mystery of Anastasia. Did she survive the massacre of the Romanovs? Was she Anna Anderson? ]
Anastasia: The Unmasking Of Anna Anderson - Explaining how Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, was identified as being Franziska Schanzkowska.
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HIH Alexei Romanov - The Spala Crisis of 1912. John Kendrick examines the case of the Tsarevich Alexei's haemophilia, and concludes that Heino Tammet was really the Tsarevich.
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