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Definition of defendant
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Defendant
(a.)
Making
defense.
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Non Est Inventus
::
Non est
inventus
() The
return
of a
sheriff
on a writ, when the
defendant
is not found in his
county..
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..
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..
Rebuttal
::
Rebuttal
(n.) The
giving
of
evidence
on the part of a
plaintiff
to
destroy
the
effect
of
evidence
introduced
by the
defendant
in the same suit.
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..
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..
Oyer
::
Oyer (n.) A
hearing
or an
inspection,
as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a
defendant
in court prays oyer of a
writing..
Surrejoinder
::
Surrejoin
(v. i.) To
reply,
as a
plaintiff
to a
defendant's
rejoinder..
Attorney
::
Attorney
(n.) A legal agent
qualified
to act for
suitors
and
defendants
in legal
proceedings;
an
attorney
at law.
Respondent
::
Respondent
(n.) One who
responds.
It
corresponds
in
general
to
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..
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..
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.
Reconvention
::
Reconvention
(n.) A cross
demand;
an
action
brought
by the
defendant
against
the
plaintiff
before
the same
judge.
Nontenure
::
Nontenure
(n.) A plea of a
defendant
that he did not hold the land, as
affirmed..
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..
Rebutter
::
Rebutter
(n.) The
answer
of a
defendant
in
matter
of fact to a
plaintiff's
surrejoinder.
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..
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..
Surrein
::
Surrebuter
(n.) The reply of a
plaintiff
to a
defendant's
rebutter.
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