🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

complaint noun

  /kəmˈpleɪnt/
  • (legal) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted.
 plainte, réclamation
  • (legal) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.However, court proceedings, such as a trial, cannot be instituted until an indictment or information has been handed down against the defendant.
 porter plainte
  • A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
 plainte

🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

complainte noun {f}

  /kɔ̃.plɛ̃t/
  • (Droit) Type d’action possessoire ayant pour but de réparer les troubles affectant la possession d’un bien et non sa propriété
 action of ejectment
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