- Put on trial - Take to court - they bring suits - To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or
accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to
continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim. - To seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute
a right or a claim in a court of law. - To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse
of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment,
before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to
prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot. - To follow after.
- One who interpleads. - A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the
same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties,
to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and
thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise
bring against him.