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Avowant :: Avowant (n.) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking..

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..

Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication..

Surrein :: Surrebuter (n.) The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.

Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.

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..

Defendant :: Defendant (n.) A person required to make answer in an action or suit; -- opposed to plaintiff.

Factorize :: Factorize (v. t.) To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff..

Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who responds. It corresponds in general 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..

Cognovit :: Cognovit (n.) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.

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..

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..

Nontenure :: Nontenure (n.) A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed..

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.

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..

Surrejoinder :: Surrejoin (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder..

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.

Appellee :: Appellee (n.) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution..

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