non prosequitur

1. 1.

   a judgment entered in favor of the defendant when the plaintiff has not continued his action (e.g., has not appeared in court)

   Synonymsnon pros

   Broaderjudgment

   law

Questions about non prosequitur

What does non prosequitur mean?

non prosequitur means "a judgment entered in favor of the defendant when the plaintiff has not continued his action (e.g., has not appeared in court)".

What is another word for non prosequitur?

Close synonyms include non pros. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is non prosequitur a common word?

non prosequitur is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.