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Definition of defendant
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Defendant
(a.)
Making
defense.
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Surrejoinder
::
Surrejoin
(v. i.) To
reply,
as a
plaintiff
to a
defendant's
rejoinder..
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..
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..
Crossbill
::
Crossbill
() A bill
brought
by a
defendant,
in an
equity
or
chancery
suit,
against
the
plaintiff,
respecting
the
matter
in
question
in that
suit..
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.
Rejoin
::
Rejoin
(v. i.) To
answer,
as the
defendant
to the
plaintiff's
replication..
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..
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..
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..
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..
Respondent
::
Respondent
(n.) One who
responds.
It
corresponds
in
general
to
defendant.
Plaintiff
::
Plaintiff
(n.) One who
commences
a
personal
action
or suit to
obtain
a
remedy
for an
injury
to his
rights;
--
opposed
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..
Non Est Inventus
::
Non est
inventus
() The
return
of a
sheriff
on a writ, when the
defendant
is not found in his
county..
Nontenure
::
Nontenure
(n.) A plea of a
defendant
that he did not hold the land, as
affirmed..
Taxable
::
Taxable
(a.) That may be
legally
charged
by a court
against
the
plaintiff
of
defendant
in a suit; as,
taxable
costs..
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.
Prevaricate
::
Prevaricate
(v. i.) To
collude,
as where an
informer
colludes
with the
defendant,
and makes a sham
prosecution..
Rebutter
::
Rebutter
(n.) The
answer
of a
defendant
in
matter
of fact to a
plaintiff's
surrejoinder.
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