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