Adverse Party

An adverse party is an opposing party in a lawsuit under an adversary system of law. In general, an adverse party is a party against whom judgment is sought. For example, the adverse party for a defendant is the plaintiff.

In a civil law case, there can be one or more adverse parties.

Read more about Adverse Party:  Adverse Party's Witnesses

Famous quotes containing the words adverse and/or party:

    [Religious establishment] is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity ... [because] with an ignoble and unchristian timidity it would [be] circumscribed, with a wall of defence, against the encroachments of error.
    James Madison (1751–1836)

    One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)