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In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).
A person who only appears in the case as a witness is not considered a party. Courts use various terms to identify the role of a particular party in civil litigation , usually identifying the party that brings a lawsuit as the plaintiff , or, in older American cases, the party of the first part ; and the party against whom the case was brought ...
Third party standing is a term of the law of civil procedure that describes when one party may file a lawsuit or assert a defense in which the rights of third parties are asserted. In the United States , this is generally prohibited, as a party can only assert his or her own rights and cannot raise the claims of right of a third party who is ...
right to third-party relief Right of a third-party beneficiary to sue in order to enforce a third-party contract, i.e. the opposite of privity of contract. ius retentionis: right of retaining Lien (possessory) ius variandi: right of varying Free choice of court actions where concurrent actions lie, e.g. tort and criminal, or tort and breach of ...
The driver is the first party, both in contract law meaning (because he purchased, or ought to have purchased, fuel) and in the general English analogy (because he was directly involved in an event). In contract law terms, the gasoline station is the second party. There is a video tape of the event from a city-owned surveillance camera.
In commercial law, a principal is a person, legal or natural, who authorizes an agent to act to create one or more legal relationships with a third party.This branch of law is called agency and relies on the common law proposition qui facit per alium, facit per se (from Latin: "he who acts through another, acts personally").
Jus tertii (English: rights of a third party/ stranger) is a term for the legal argument by which a person can defend a claim made against them by invoking the rights of a stranger to the dispute. The defence asserts that the rights of the stranger are superior to those of the claimant; in other words the defence is that the claimant has ...
The promisee may provide consideration to a third party, if this is agreed at the time the parties contracted. [10] The offeree must provide consideration, although the consideration does not have to flow to the offeror. For example, it is good consideration for person A to pay person C in return for services rendered by person B.