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Definition of defendant
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Defendant
(a.)
Serving,
or
suitable,
for
defense;
defensive..
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Attorney
::
Attorney
(n.) A legal agent
qualified
to act for
suitors
and
defendants
in legal
proceedings;
an
attorney
at law.
Color
::
Color (n.) An
apparent
right;
as where the
defendant
in
trespass
gave to the
plaintiff
an
appearance
of
title,
by
stating
his title
specially,
thus
removing
the cause from the jury to the
court..
Prevaricator
::
Prevaricator
(n.) A sham
dealer;
one who
colludes
with a
defendant
in a sham
prosecution.
Taxable
::
Taxable
(a.) That may be
legally
charged
by a court
against
the
plaintiff
of
defendant
in a suit; as,
taxable
costs..
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..
Respond
::
Respond
(v. i.) To
render
satisfaction;
to be
answerable;
as, the
defendant
is held to
respond
in
damages..
Joinder
::
Joinder
(v. t.) A
joining
of
parties
as
plaintiffs
or
defendants
in a suit.
Decide
::
Decide
(v. i.) To
determine;
to form a
definite
opinion;
to come to a
conclusion;
to give
decision;
as, the court
decided
in favor of the
defendant..
Pleadings
::
Pleadings
(n. pl.) The
mutual
pleas and
replies
of the
plaintiff
and
defendant,
or
written
statements
of the
parties
in
support
of their
claims,
proceeding
from the
declaration
of the
plaintiff,
until issue is
joined,
and the
question
made to rest on some
single
point..
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..
Recover
::
Recover
(v. t.) To gain as a
compensation;
to
obtain
in
return
for
injury
or debt; as, to
recover
damages
in
trespass;
to
recover
debt and costs in a suit at law; to
obtain
title to by
judgement
in a court of law; as, to
recover
lands in
ejectment
or
common
recovery;
to gain by legal
process;
as, to
recover
judgement
against
a
defendant..
Replication
::
Replication
(n.) The reply of the
plaintiff,
in
matters
of fact, to the
defendant's
plea..
Prevarication
::
Prevarication
(n.) The
collusion
of an
informer
with the
defendant,
for the
purpose
of
making
a sham
prosecution..
Avoid
::
Avoid (a.) To
defeat
or
evade;
to
invalidate.
Thus, in a
replication,
the
plaintiff
may deny the
defendant's
plea, or
confess
it, and avoid it by
stating
new
matter..
Defendant
::
Defendant
(n.) One who
defends;
a
defender.
Suitress
::
Suitor
(n.) One who
attends
a court as
plaintiff,
defendant,
petitioner,
appellant,
witness,
juror,
or the
like..
Nontenure
::
Nontenure
(n.) A plea of a
defendant
that he did not hold the land, as
affirmed..
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..
Cognovit
::
Cognovit
(n.) An
instrument
in
writing
whereby
a
defendant
in an
action
acknowledges
a
plaintiff's
demand
to be just.
Party
::
Party (v.) The
plaintiff
or the
defendant
in a
lawsuit,
whether
an
individual,
a firm, or
corporation;
a
litigant..
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