Complaint

Complaint

Complaint, in law, formal pleading, made under oath, charging a person with a crime. (1)

Complaint in Election Law

Presentation by a plaintiff before the competent electoral or judicial authority, setting forth the claim for which redress is sought. (See: Claim)

A Complaint against the Police: International Incident

In the book “International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes”, in relation to this subject, L. Oppenheim wrote in 1909: A policeman, stationed at the corner of Bond Street and Oxford Street for the purpose of regulating traffic, raises his hand as a sign for carriages coming from Bond Street to stop. One of the drivers ignores this sign and drives on. The policeman seizes the horse’s head and stops the carriage, whereupon a gentleman within complains, maintaining that he is an ambassador to the English Court and that the police have no right to stop him. As the policeman does not give way the ambassador leaves his carriage and, going immediately to the Foreign Office, complains of the violation of his privileges and demands the punishment of the policeman.

Complaint

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Complaint (1): A complaint that the plaintiffs hold one doctrinal standard and the defendants another is sufficiently definite without explaining the difference between the two.390

Complaint

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• Law
• Rule of Law
• Law System
• Legislation

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• Counterclaim
• Cross-claim
• Supplemental complaint
• Third party complaint

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Notes and References

1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

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• Religion
• Church

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• Election Law
• Electoral Laws
• Electoral Legislation

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1. Encarta Online Encyclopedia

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Spanish Translation of complaint and claim

This is the legal translation of English to Spanish in relation to complaint or claim and / or a definition of this topic: Queja (in Spanish, without translation of the dictionary entry).