collateral attack
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
An attempt to impugn a judgment in a separate proceeding rather than by direct appeal.
The debtor's fresh suit was a collateral attack on the default judgment and barred as such.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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