Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plaintiff's pleading in response to a defendant's rejoinder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The answer of a plaintiff in common-law pleading to a defendant's rejoinder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
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- noun law :In
common law pleading , aplaintiff 's answer to thedefendant 'srejoinder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder
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Examples
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The governor rejoined by a repetition of his demand; the captain-general gave a surrejoinder of still greater length, and legal acumen; the governor became hotter and more peremptory in his demands, and the captain-general cooler and more copious in his replies; until the old lion-hearted soldier absolutely roared with fury at being thus entangled in the meshes of legal controversy.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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So on, assertion, rejoinder, surrejoinder, and rebuttal, till the dispassionate philosopher in the pillows wearied of his conceit and directed his thoughts toward breakfast.
The Henchman Mark Lee Luther
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After the joinder and the rejoinder and the surrejoinder the jury retired to a log and eventually brought in this verdict: "We, the jury, find for the plaintiff two dollars and fifty cents unless the defendant will take back what he said."
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It is like a bill in equity that has nine parts, and there is the accusation and the rejoinder and the surrejoinder and other mysteries.
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After this came rejoinder and surrejoinder, and reduplications of both, poured in by broadsides.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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Enns responded, and then I wrote a surrejoinder just on this very issue.
Triablogue 2008
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a surrejoinder by Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review of October, 1829.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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