Definition of "libellant" []

• One who brings a libel or institutes a suit in a court, especially in an ecclesiastical or an admiralty court. Also libelant. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "May 22, the vice-admiralty court pronounced a decree in a suit brought by her commander, as libellant, against the prize snow _Johnson_."
• "Under the presence of protecting her property from the claims of her husband's creditors, the Colonel was kind enough to take a conveyance of it to himself; and, shortly afterwards, the fair libellant; by which means he secured himself from those distracting cares which beset the young legal practitioner, who stands in immediate need of the wherewithal."
• "The custom in that State is, to put into the hands of the agent of the _libellant_ the effects _libelled_, and the proceeds of their sale, if it has taken place."