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Definition of defendant
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Defendant
(a.)
Serving,
or
suitable,
for
defense;
defensive..
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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..
Surrejoinder
::
Surrejoin
(v. i.) To
reply,
as a
plaintiff
to a
defendant's
rejoinder..
Plaintiff
::
Plaintiff
(n.) One who
commences
a
personal
action
or suit to
obtain
a
remedy
for an
injury
to his
rights;
--
opposed
to
defendant.
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..
Appellee
::
Appellee
(n.) The
defendant
in an
appeal;
--
opposed
to
appellant.
Discontinuance
::
Discontinuance
(n.) That
technical
interruption
of the
proceedings
in
pleading
in an
action,
which
follows
where a
defendant
does not
answer
the whole of the
plaintiff's
declaration,
and the
plaintiff
omits to take
judgment
for the part
unanswered..
Replication
::
Replication
(n.) The reply of the
plaintiff,
in
matters
of fact, to the
defendant's
plea..
Prevaricate
::
Prevaricate
(v. i.) To
collude,
as where an
informer
colludes
with the
defendant,
and makes a sham
prosecution..
Process
::
Process
(n.) The whole
course
of
proceedings
in a cause real or
personal,
civil or
criminal,
from the
beginning
to the end of the suit;
strictly,
the means used for
bringing
the
defendant
into court to
answer
to the
action;
-- a
generic
term for writs of the class
called
judicial..
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..
Set-off
::
Set-off
(n.) A
counterclaim;
a cross debt or
demand;
a
distinct
claim filed or set up by the
defendant
against
the
plaintiff's
demand.
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..
Default
::
Default
(v. t.) To call a
defendant
or other party whose duty it is to be
present
in
court,
and make entry of his
default,
if he fails to
appear;
to enter a
default
against..
Joinder
::
Joinder
(v. t.) A
joining
of
parties
as
plaintiffs
or
defendants
in a suit.
Respondent
::
Respondent
(n.) One who
responds.
It
corresponds
in
general
to
defendant.
Defendant
::
Defendant
(n.) One who
defends;
a
defender.
Nontenure
::
Nontenure
(n.) A plea of a
defendant
that he did not hold the land, as
affirmed..
Prevaricator
::
Prevaricator
(n.) A sham
dealer;
one who
colludes
with a
defendant
in a sham
prosecution.
Respond
::
Respond
(v. i.) To
render
satisfaction;
to be
answerable;
as, the
defendant
is held to
respond
in
damages..
Avowant
::
Avowant
(n.) The
defendant
in
replevin,
who avows the
distress
of the
goods,
and
justifies
the
taking..
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