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Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution..

Party :: Party (v.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant..

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..

Counsel :: Counsel (n.) One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution..

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..

Factorize :: Factorize (v. t.) To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff..

Avowant :: Avowant (n.) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking..

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.

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..

Respond :: Respond (v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages..

Codefendant :: Codefendant (n.) A joint defendant.

Reconvention :: Reconvention (n.) A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.

Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication..

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

Surrejoinder :: Surrejoin (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law..

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..

Defendant :: Defendant (n.) One who defends; a defender.

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

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