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Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (v. t.) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up..

Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied..

Pursuer :: Pursuer (n.) A plaintiff; a prosecutor.

Find :: Find (v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff..

Crossbill :: Crossbill () A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit..

Surrendered :: Surrejoinder (n.) The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case..

Actor :: Actor (n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

Joinder :: Joinder (v. t.) A joining of parties as plaintiffs or defendants in a suit.

Replication :: Replication (n.) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea..

Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea..

Subpoenaed :: Subpoena (n.) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill..

Oratrix :: Oratrix (n.) A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading..

Innuendo :: Innuendo (n.) An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief..

Summons :: Summons (v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like..

Rebutter :: Rebutter (n.) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

Elegit :: Elegit (n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired..

Count :: Count (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution..

Querent :: Querent (n.) A complainant; a plaintiff.

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