To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.

To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.

To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.

(sued, suing) To commence and maintain a civil proceeding against another person, in order to obtain redress from the court for an alleged wrong caused by the other party. Click here to go back to the glossary. If you entered from another page click your web browsers "back" button

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The act of bringing a lawsuit.

To bring a civil lawsuit.

To sue is to establish a lawsuit.

institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"

The act of filing a lawsuit asking the court for some kind of legal relief or redress.

To initiate an action in civil law against another person or body for a perceived wrong.

To take legal action in a civil matter.

Sue is the nickname of a huge, almost complete T. rex fossil that was found by Susan (Sue) Hendrickson near Faith, South Dakota, USA, in August 1990. After much controversy about its ownership (and other legal matters), Sue (the T. rex) was auctioned at Sotheby's in 1997 for 7.6 million dollars to the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where Sue is now on view.