Definition of "sue" []

• Law To petition (a court) for redress of grievances or recovery of a right. (verb-transitive)
• Law To institute proceedings against (a person) for redress of grievances. (verb-transitive)
• Law To carry (an action) through to a final decision. (verb-transitive)
• To court; woo. (verb-transitive)
• Obsolete To make a petition to; appeal to; beseech. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To be sure, there are circumstances, in patent law, for example, where a covenant not to sue is roughly equivalent to a licence."
• "I have always wondered if threatening to sue is considerd an offence."
• "Picking people out of a hat to sue is terrible when most of the people doing the downloading/sharing are kids."