Crossbill: alternatives and connections

the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of ‘…

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…

The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein,…

A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; b…

(law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff

The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law.

(law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence; "in common law any degree of c…

A suit in law or equity; a question of right.

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…

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,…

That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of…

A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to sat…

That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitabl…

An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc.

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 sh…

Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.

We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient e…