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interplead [Anglo-French enterpleder, from enter- between, among + pleder to plead, from Old French plaidier] vt : to bring (adverse claimants) into court by interpleader [the defendants can injured stock purchasers if they fear the latter may have a superior claim…to the agents' illicit profits "R. C. Clark"] compare implead, intervene vi : to go to trial with each other in order to settle adverse claims to property held by or an obligation owed by a third party (as an insurance company) [may be joined as defendants and required to when their claims are such that the plaintiff is or may be exposed to double or multiple liability "Official Code of Georgia Annotated"] ...
realign
realign : to make new divisions or groupings of ;esp : to regroup (one or more litigants) to reflect the true arrangement of interests in a suit NOTE: After examining the ultimate interests of the parties involved in a suit, the court might choose to realign the plaintiffs and defendants so that, for example, one of the defendants becomes a plaintiff. re·align·ment n ...
respondent
respondent : one who answers or defends in various proceedings: as a : an answering party in an equitable proceeding b : a party against whom a petition (as for a writ of habeas corpus) seeking relief is brought c : an answering party in a proceeding in juvenile court or family court ;specif : a party against whom a divorce proceeding is brought d : a party prevailing at trial who defends the outcome on appeal : appellee ...
Elegit
A judicial writ of execution by which a defendants 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 defendants interest has expired...
Arrestment jurisdictionis fundand' causa
Arrestment jurisdictionis fundand' causa. In Scotland, if a non-Scots Defender is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Court in any other way, but has some movable property corporeal or incorporeal, in the hands of a third party within the jurisdiction, that property may be arrested by this process, and then the Defender is subject to the Court's jurisdiction. The value of the property, so long as it has some merchantable value, is immaterial. This process does not prevent the third party from disposing of the property....
Client
Client [fr. cliens, Lat., said to contain the same element as they verb clueo, to hear of obey, and accordingly compared by Niebuhr with the German word hoeriger, a dependent], a person who seeks advice of a lawyer or commits his cause to the management of one, either in prosecuting a claim or defending a suit in a Court of justice; and for meaning, the word (except in relation to non-contentious business) includes any person who as principal or on behalf of another person retains or employs, or is about to retain or employ, a solicitor, and any person who is or may be liable to pay a solicitor's costs (English) (Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), s. 81). The relation between solicitor and client is a highly confidential one, and the power which his situation gives the former over the latter makes it impossible to be perfectly assured, in certain cases, whether in their transactions the client is a free agent, or under influence and imposition. A Court of Equity, therefore, ...
Proceeding
Proceeding, includes administrative proceeding, Nathibai v. Maheshwari Samaj Ramola Trust, AIR 1997 MP 19.It includes execution proceedings also, Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 22.Proceeding, is a term of wide amplitude. It means a prescribed course of action for enforcing or protecting a legal right and further embracing the requisite steps to be taken whether procedural or substantive. Also means forms in which relief is sought before courts of law or before other bodies or authorities determining rights and liabilities and in which actions are brought and defended and the manner of conducting them and the mode of deciding them. All these happenings or events before a labour court or industrial tribunal or any other authority on whom jurisdiction is conferred by law to dispose of contentious matters are understated by the term 'proceeding', Workmen of Bali Singh Bhagwan Singh v. Management, 1968 ILR 2 Punj 371: 1969 Lab IC 581: AIR 1969 Punj 147; K.J. Lingan and A.V. Mahayalam v. Jt. ...
Settlement credit
Settlement credit, means a court's reduction of the amount of a jury verdict-or the effect of the verdict on non-settling defendants-to account for settlement funds the plaintiff has received from former defendants or from other responsible parties, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1377....
Sever
Sever. Defendants are said to 'sever' in their defences when they plead independently. Trustees made defendants to an action are not justified in severing except under very special circumstances....
Unclaimed property
Unclaimed property. This devolves on the Crown at Common Law. Unclaimed property may be dealt with under the heads of (1) Government Stock, (2) Chancery Funds, (3) Stock in Public Companies, (4) Bankers' Balances, (5) Deposits with Bankers for Safe Custody, and (6) Found Property.(1) Government Stock.-The National Debt Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 71), ss. 51 et seq., as extended by 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28, s. 49 provides that stock on which no dividend has been claimed for ten years must be transferred to the National Debt Commissioners. Lists of names in which the stock stood, with residence, description and amount of stock and date of transfer, are to be kept at the Bank of England [or Ireland, but see 13 Geo. 5, c. 2, s. 6 (d)] and at the National Debt Office, open to inspection, and also kept in duplicate at the National Debt Office. The stock may be re-transferred to persons showing title after, in the case of stock exceeding 20l., three months' public notice by advertisement. A sec...
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