legal proceedings

idiom

: actions taken to settle an argument in a court of law

Examples of legal proceedings in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Lachlan’s oldest siblings — Prudence, Elisabeth and James — have challenged the changes in a Nevada probate court, which handles legal proceedings around the transfer of property after a person’s death, to keep the trust the same. Hannah Miller, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2024 Aidala has waged a pressure campaign against the DA’s office in public and in court to have his client stay at Bellevue’s prisoner ward for the duration of the legal proceedings against him. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024 In what is expected to be a tight presidential race, spending valuable time on the campaign trail instead of in a courtroom is one benefit for him, as is having less media and public attention on potentially damaging legal proceedings. Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024 The probes and legal proceedings threaten to hinder business for PwC, which had more revenue in China than any of the Big Four accounting firms as recently as 2022. Sydney Lake, Fortune Asia, 16 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for legal proceedings 

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“Legal proceedings.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legal%20proceedings. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.

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