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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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Defendant
::
Defendant
(n.) A
person
required
to make
answer
in an
action
or suit; --
opposed
to
plaintiff.
Rebutter
::
Rebutter
(n.) The
answer
of a
defendant
in
matter
of fact to a
plaintiff's
surrejoinder.
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..
Appellee
::
Appellee
(n.) The
defendant
in an
appeal;
--
opposed
to
appellant.
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..
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..
Avowant
::
Avowant
(n.) The
defendant
in
replevin,
who avows the
distress
of the
goods,
and
justifies
the
taking..
Cognovit
::
Cognovit
(n.) An
instrument
in
writing
whereby
a
defendant
in an
action
acknowledges
a
plaintiff's
demand
to be just.
Surrendered
::
Surrejoinder
(n.) The
answer
of a
plaintiff
to a
defendant's
rejoinder.
Nontenure
::
Nontenure
(n.) A plea of a
defendant
that he did not hold the land, as
affirmed..
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..
Respondent
::
Respondent
(n.) One who
responds.
It
corresponds
in
general
to
defendant.
Party
::
Party (v.) The
plaintiff
or the
defendant
in a
lawsuit,
whether
an
individual,
a firm, or
corporation;
a
litigant..
Prevaricator
::
Prevaricator
(n.) A sham
dealer;
one who
colludes
with a
defendant
in a sham
prosecution.
Plaintiff
::
Plaintiff
(n.) One who
commences
a
personal
action
or suit to
obtain
a
remedy
for an
injury
to his
rights;
--
opposed
to
defendant.
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..
Garnishment
::
Garnishment
(n.)
Warning
to a
person
in whose hands the
effects
of
another
are
attached,
not to pay the money or
deliver
the goods to the
defendant,
but to
appear
in court and give
information
as
garnishee..
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.
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.
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..
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