0 a person in a law case who is accused of having done something illegal --
1 a person in a court of law who is accused of having done something wrong: --
The prosecutor must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.
2 a person or company in a law case that is accused of having done something illegal, or of harming someone else: --
Note, however, the sense in which the judge's decision is responsive to the par ticipation of the (losing) defendant as well.
Urging jurors to suppose that the defendant is innocentm is neither necessary nor desirable.
It is admitted that neither of our defendants has the same intention as that of the unconditional intender.
The important point is that the defendant's duty to the plaintiff persists after its breach.
The restitutionar y claim is made out if some of the plaintiff's loss corresponds to some of the defendant's gain.
Litigation was indeed very costly for both plaintiffs and defendants, and the above expenses were only the tip of the iceberg.
There, as we saw, the plaintiff's right to remedy in some sense derived from the right in whose violation the defendant's breach of duty consisted.
The defendant healthcare professionals contended that the families greatly exaggerated both the severity of the patients' pain and the professional unresponsiveness to it.
