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Plaintless :: Plaintless (a.) Without complaint; unrepining.

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.

Elegy :: Elegy (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

Crimination :: Crimination (n.) The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

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..

Whine :: Whine (v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely..

Tithingman :: Tithingman (n.) A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath..

Complaint :: Complaint (n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding..

Murmurous :: Murmurous (a.) Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring.

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..

Bar :: Bar (n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.

Querent :: Querent (n.) A complainant; a plaintiff.

Set-off :: Set-off (n.) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.

Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit..

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..

Complainant :: Complainant (n.) One who commences a legal process by a complaint.

Croak :: Croak (v. i.) To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually..

Surrendered :: Surrejoinder (n.) The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

Arraignment :: Arraignment (n.) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint..

Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder..

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