plaintiff in error

1. 1.

   the party who appeals a decision of a lower court

   Synonymsappellant

   Broaderlitigant

Questions about plaintiff in error

What does plaintiff in error mean?

plaintiff in error means "the party who appeals a decision of a lower court".

What is another word for plaintiff in error?

Close synonyms include appellant. 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 plaintiff in error a common word?

plaintiff in error 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.