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Definition of defendant
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Defendant
(a.)
Serving,
or
suitable,
for
defense;
defensive..
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Garnishment
::
Garnishment
(n.)
Warning
to a
person
in whose hands the
effects
of
another
are
attached,
not to pay the money or
deliver
the goods to the
defendant,
but to
appear
in court and give
information
as
garnishee..
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..
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..
Defendant
::
Defendant
(a.)
Making
defense.
Nontenure
::
Nontenure
(n.) A plea of a
defendant
that he did not hold the land, as
affirmed..
Cognovit
::
Cognovit
(n.) An
instrument
in
writing
whereby
a
defendant
in an
action
acknowledges
a
plaintiff's
demand
to be just.
Avowant
::
Avowant
(n.) The
defendant
in
replevin,
who avows the
distress
of the
goods,
and
justifies
the
taking..
Defendant
::
Defendant
(a.)
Serving,
or
suitable,
for
defense;
defensive..
Conclude
::
Conclude
(v. t.) To shut off; to
restrain;
to
limit;
to
estop;
to bar; --
generally
in the
passive;
as, the
defendant
is
concluded
by his own plea; a
judgment
concludes
the
introduction
of
further
evidence
argument..
Nolle Prosequi
::
Nolle
prosequi
() Will not
prosecute;
-- an entry on the
record,
denoting
that a
plaintiff
discontinues
his suit, or the
attorney
for the
public
a
prosecution;
either
wholly,
or as to some
count,
or as to some of
several
defendants..
Traverse
::
Traverse
(a.) To deny
formally,
as what the
opposite
party has
alleged.
When the
plaintiff
or
defendant
advances
new
matter,
he avers it to be true, and
traverses
what the other party has
affirmed.
To
traverse
an
indictment
or an
office
is to deny it..
Rejoin
::
Rejoin
(v. i.) To
answer,
as the
defendant
to the
plaintiff's
replication..
Defence
::
Defence
(n.) The
defendant's
answer
or plea; an
opposing
or
denial
of the truth or
validity
of the
plaintiff's
or
prosecutor's
case; the
method
of
proceeding
adopted
by the
defendant
to
protect
himself
against
the
plaintiff's
action.
Prevaricate
::
Prevaricate
(v. i.) To
collude,
as where an
informer
colludes
with the
defendant,
and makes a sham
prosecution..
Appellee
::
Appellee
(n.) The
defendant
in an
appeal;
--
opposed
to
appellant.
Nonjoinder
::
Nonjoinder
(n.) The
omission
of some
person
who ought to have been made a
plaintiff
or
defendant
in a suit, or of some cause of
action
which ought to be
joined..
Rebutter
::
Rebutter
(n.) The
answer
of a
defendant
in
matter
of fact to a
plaintiff's
surrejoinder.
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..
Nolo Contendere
::
Nolo
contendere
() A plea, by the
defendant,
in a
criminal
prosecution,
which,
without
admitting
guilt,
subjects
him to all the
consequences
of a plea of
quilty..
Recompensation
::
Recompensation
(n.) Used to
denote
a case where a
set-off
pleaded
by the
defendant
is met by a
set-off
pleaded
by the
plaintiff.
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