Word.ws English Dictionary

law suit

law suit is the archaic form of lawsuit.

Meaning of lawsuit

Noun

lawsuit (plural lawsuits)

  1. In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.
    • The lawyer advised his client against filing a lawsuit as it would take a lot of time and money to resolve.

See all 2 meanings of lawsuit

Forms of law suit

plurallaw suits

Questions about law suit

What is law suit the archaic form of?
Law suit is the archaic form of lawsuit.

Words near law suit in the dictionary

  1. law review
  2. law reviews
  3. law school
  4. law schools
  5. law shopping
  6. law suit
  7. law suits
  8. law unto oneself
  9. law-abiding
  10. law-biding
  11. law-breaker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: law suit (page history and authors); lawsuit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “law suit.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/law_suit. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.