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

Defensative :: Defensative (n.) That which serves to protect or defend.

Oyer :: Oyer (n.) A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing..

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

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

Defensory :: Defensory (a.) Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations..

Defendable :: Defendable (a.) Capable of being defended; defensible.

Assert :: Assert (v. t.) To maintain; to defend.

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..

Kamichi :: Kamichi (n.) A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and S

Defendee :: Defendee (n.) One who is defended.

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another..

Patron :: Patron (n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender..

Shield :: Shield (n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends..

Unpleaded :: Unpleaded (a.) Not supported by pleas; undefended; as, an unpleaded suit..

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..

Apron :: Apron (n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings..

Fieri Facias :: Fieri facias () A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed..

Taxable :: Taxable (a.) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs..

Marcher :: Marcher (n.) The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.

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