Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To sue (a third party) in a lawsuit that has already been commenced as a defendant who may be liable for the claim that is the subject of the suit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sue or prosecute by judicial proceedings: as, the corporation shall have power to plead and be impleaded.
- To impeach; accuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Law) To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.
- intransitive verb To sue at law.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb law To
sue incourt , to raise anaction against adefendant .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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NTPC not to implead in RIL-RNRL case: Power Secretary A day after the Government moved an application in the Supreme Court with the twin aims of protecting its own and NTPC's interests in the Ambani gas row, the Power Ministry today said the state-run firm will not file a separate plea.
India News Digest: NTPC Not to Implead in RIL-RNRL Case: Power Secretary 2009
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Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
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Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
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So that they shall not be bound to come before the Iustices aforesaid, except any of the same Barons doe implead any man, or if any man be impleaded.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Wherefore if Deme'tri-us, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
Acts 19. 1999
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Livingston, in the throng, and exclaimed: "Robert Livingston, for this I will implead thee at the bar of God!"
The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Henry Mann
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Your tyrannous masters often implead, arrest, and cast you into prison, so that they may the more terrify and torture you in your minds, and wind your necks more surely under their arms ....
The Rise of the Democracy Joseph Clayton
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The second of the original powers of corporations which is still maintained, is to sue or to be sued, implead, or to be impleaded, grant or receive, by its corporate name and to do all other acts as natural persons may.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Council, and perhaps to implead me on the one part, and a presiding elder and conference on the other.
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We have some time to consider upon it between this and the Yearly Conference, when it will probably be brought before the Yearly Conference; at least, we may suppose, the Presiding Elder and Elder will implead each other at the Conference.
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