See also: Lawsuit (homonymy)

A lawsuit is a litigation subjected to a jurisdiction, which can be for example a Tribunal or a court. At the conclusion of the lawsuit, a decision is returned. It can be a question of a judgment, for the decisions returned by the courts, or of a stop, for the decisions returned by the Courses.

In the unstable modes, the lawsuits which do not respect the Droits of marked the can take the form of a popular court, a lawsuit without witnesses, an inquisitorial practice, a political decree, a revolutionary justice, of a secret court, consents under torture or of a settling of score against an individual or a social class.

See too

• Transport Schiocchet Excursions, indicated by certain newspapers like the most stupid lawsuit of all times.
• judicial Power
• Judge
• Magistrate
• jurisdictional Organization (France)
• jurisdictional Organization (Belgium)
• jurisdictional Organization (Quebec)

External bond

• Lawsuit in Belgium