Examples of litigant

• When the (inevitable) decision is rendered, the litigants cannot be said to have par ticipated in it in any meaningful way.

• What matters is that the evidence is contextualized in terms of both the social status of the litigants and the period.

• The form was widely available throughout the country; the litigant had to fill in the blanks and submit it.

• By requiring the courts to treat like cases alike, the law purports to assure the litigants that they are treated equally by the law.

• Potential litigants may have relied on previous judicial rulings and formed expectations about the law that it would be wrong to frustrate.

• Since the records rarely state the marital status of men, it is impossible to gauge how this might have affected their activities as litigants.

• Conversely, those less likely to enjoy privileged status, such as craftsmen, labourers and rural workers, were under-represented as litigants in the university courts.

• That is, the altruistic litigant must argue its case on the basis of its own existing entitlements.