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Definition of defendant
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Defendant
(n.) A
person
required
to make
answer
in an
action
or suit; --
opposed
to
plaintiff.
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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..
Reconvention
::
Reconvention
(n.) A cross
demand;
an
action
brought
by the
defendant
against
the
plaintiff
before
the same
judge.
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..
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..
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..
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..
Recover
::
Recover
(v. t.) To gain as a
compensation;
to
obtain
in
return
for
injury
or debt; as, to
recover
damages
in
trespass;
to
recover
debt and costs in a suit at law; to
obtain
title to by
judgement
in a court of law; as, to
recover
lands in
ejectment
or
common
recovery;
to gain by legal
process;
as, to
recover
judgement
against
a
defendant..
Codefendant
::
Codefendant
(n.) A joint
defendant.
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..
Nontenure
::
Nontenure
(n.) A plea of a
defendant
that he did not hold the land, as
affirmed..
Cognovit
::
Cognovit
(n.) An
instrument
in
writing
whereby
a
defendant
in an
action
acknowledges
a
plaintiff's
demand
to be just.
Rejoinder
::
Rejoinder
(n.) The
defendant's
answer
to the
plaintiff's
replication.
Attorney
::
Attorney
(n.) A legal agent
qualified
to act for
suitors
and
defendants
in legal
proceedings;
an
attorney
at law.
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..
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..
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.
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..
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..
Surrejoinder
::
Surrejoin
(v. i.) To
reply,
as a
plaintiff
to a
defendant's
rejoinder..
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..
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