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action at law vs legal proceeding

legal proceeding vs action at law

action at law and legal proceeding both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
action at law Yes No No No
legal proceeding Yes No No No
As nouns, legal proceeding is a hypernym of action at law; that is, legal proceeding is a word with a broader meaning than action at law:
  • action at law: a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
  • legal proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
Other hypernyms of action at law include proceeding, proceedings.
action at law (noun) legal proceeding (noun)
a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
Difference between action at law and legal proceeding

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