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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..

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..

Suitress :: Suitor (n.) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution..

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..

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.

Nolle Prosequi :: Nolle prosequi () Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants..

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

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.

Opponent :: Opponent (n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it..

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..

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.

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.

Color :: Color (n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court..

Codefendant :: Codefendant (n.) A joint defendant.

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..

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..

Replication :: Replication (n.) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea..

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