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Definition of defendant
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Defendant
(n.) One who
defends;
a
defender.
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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.
Appellee
::
Appellee
(n.) The
defendant
in an
appeal;
--
opposed
to
appellant.
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..
Prevaricator
::
Prevaricator
(n.) A sham
dealer;
one who
colludes
with a
defendant
in a sham
prosecution.
Attorney
::
Attorney
(n.) A legal agent
qualified
to act for
suitors
and
defendants
in legal
proceedings;
an
attorney
at law.
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..
Cognizor
::
Cognizor
(n.) One who
acknowledged
the right of the
plaintiff
or
cognizee
in a fine; the
defendant.
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.
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..
Plaintiff
::
Plaintiff
(n.) One who
commences
a
personal
action
or suit to
obtain
a
remedy
for an
injury
to his
rights;
--
opposed
to
defendant.
Party
::
Party (v.) The
plaintiff
or the
defendant
in a
lawsuit,
whether
an
individual,
a firm, or
corporation;
a
litigant..
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
Defendant
::
Defendant
(n.) One who
defends;
a
defender.
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..
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..
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..
Reconvention
::
Reconvention
(n.) A cross
demand;
an
action
brought
by the
defendant
against
the
plaintiff
before
the same
judge.
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..
Respondent
::
Respondent
(n.) One who
responds.
It
corresponds
in
general
to
defendant.
Codefendant
::
Codefendant
(n.) A joint
defendant.
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