訴状|そじょうsojou[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounpetition; complaint; (legal) brief

• Antonym答弁書とうべんしょFormalFormal legal term for the written answer a defendant submits in response to a 訴状, admitting or disputing each of the plaintiff's claims; confined to legal contexts.

Choose 訴状 for the complaint a plaintiff files with the court to start a lawsuit; 答弁書 is the defendant's formal written answer responding to that complaint, so the two belong to opposite sides of one case.

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1. 訴うったえを裁判所さいばんしょに提出ていしゅつする文書ぶんしょ。