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complainant definition - legal

n

  1. One who enters a complaint against another in a civil action.
  2. One who signs and swears to a criminal complaint.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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