Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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use plaintiff

Common-law pleading. A plaintiff for whom an action is brought in another's name. ( For example, when the use plaintiff was an assignee ("A") of a chose in action and had to sue in someone else's name, the assignor ("B") would appear first on the petition's title: "B for the Use of A against C." - Also termed usee.