To prefer or lay (a charge or accusation); to institute, set on foot (an action at law); to advance, adduce (a statement or argument).

transitive. To plead (a cause or suit) in a court; to bring (an action at law). Obsolete.

transitive. Law (formerly chiefly Scots Law). To carry on, proceed with (an action); †to present or lay (information, a complaint, etc.) before a…

transitive. To cause to go along with oneself. To bring forward, adduce (testimony); to bring (an action). Now only in Scots Law.

transitive. To take (legal action), to initiate (litigation); to plead (a cause). Frequently in to sue the law (cf. law, n.1 8). Obsolete.

transitive. Chiefly Scots Law. To draw up, frame (a summons, a letter, etc.); to institute (proceedings, an action, a claim, etc.); to establish (a…

transitive. To carry on (an action at law); to have grounds for sustaining (an action).

transitive. To initiate, set in motion (an action at law). Obsolete.

transitive. To prosecute (a person or †suit) at law. Now regional and humorous.

To plead or prosecute (a suit). Obsolete. rare.

To promote (an action at law). Only in past participle. Scottish. Obsolete.

To urge or plead (one's suit, cause, etc.).

Scots Law. To maintain or prosecute (an action, etc.) in legal form. Obsolete.

transitive. To institute (a legal action). Scottish.