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non-suit

non-suit is the alternative spelling of nonsuit.

Meaning of nonsuit

Noun

nonsuit (plural nonsuits)

  1. A lawsuit that is dismissed as having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits.
  2. A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff.
    • [A]ltho the party be indicted as vvell as appeald, yet upon the nonſuit of the plaintiff, the proceeding for the king ſhall not be upon the indictment, but upon the appeal.a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “Where a Man shall be Put of Answer in Criminal and Capital Offenses without Indictment at the King’s Suit”, in Sollom Emlyn, editor, Historia Placitorum Coronæ...

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Forms of non-suit

pluralnon-suits

Questions about non-suit

What is non-suit the alternative spelling of?
Non-suit is the alternative spelling of nonsuit.

Words near non-suit in the dictionary

  1. non-strike
  2. non-striker
  3. non-strikers
  4. non-striking
  5. non-suicidal
  6. non-suit
  7. non-suits
  8. non-Sunni
  9. non-superheated
  10. non-supine
  11. non-surgical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-suit (page history and authors); nonsuit (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.

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