noun
- a judgment against a plaintiff for failure to prosecute a case or prove a sufficient case
Usage: legal
verb
- to subject to a nonsuit; to dismiss a case for failure to prosecute or prove sufficient grounds
Usage: legal
Examples
- The judge granted a nonsuit when the plaintiff failed to appear.
- The case ended in nonsuit due to insufficient evidence.
- The court nonsuited the plaintiff for lack of standing.
- After three postponements, the judge decided to nonsuit the case.
- The attorney feared a nonsuit if key witnesses didn’t testify.
- The defendant’s motion for nonsuit was denied by the court.