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Definition of defendant
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Defendant
(a.)
Making
defense.
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Default
::
Default
(n.) A
neglect
of, or
failure
to take, some step
necessary
to
secure
the
benefit
of law, as a
failure
to
appear
in court at a day
assigned,
especially
of the
defendant
in a suit when
called
to make
answer;
also of
jurors,
witnesses,
etc..
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..
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..
Rebutter
::
Rebutter
(n.) The
answer
of a
defendant
in
matter
of fact to a
plaintiff's
surrejoinder.
Elegit
::
Elegit
(n.) A
judicial
writ of
execution,
by which a
defendant's
goods are
appraised
and
delivered
to the
plaintiff,
and, if not
sufficient
to
satisfy
the debt, all of his lands are
delivered,
to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and
profits,
or until the
defendant's
interest
has
expired..
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..
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..
Defendant
::
Defendant
(n.) A
person
required
to make
answer
in an
action
or suit; --
opposed
to
plaintiff.
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
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..
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..
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..
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..
Reply
::
Reply (v. i.) To
answer
a
defendant's
plea.
Rejoin
::
Rejoin
(v. i.) To
answer,
as the
defendant
to the
plaintiff's
replication..
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..
Prevarication
::
Prevarication
(n.) The
collusion
of an
informer
with the
defendant,
for the
purpose
of
making
a sham
prosecution..
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..
Appellee
::
Appellee
(n.) The
defendant
in an
appeal;
--
opposed
to
appellant.
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