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Defendable

Capable of being defended defensible

whether jointly, severally, or in the alter-native. Two or more defendants may be joined, in case the plaintiff is in doubt

or by his next friend, though he must always have defended by his guardian. In equity he sued by next friend,

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but not all codefendants which limits the liability of the defendants by giving them an interest in the recovery awarded to

a still more limited sense and in modern practice the defendants answer to the plaintiffs declaration and demand That which the

had to call upon his lord to come forward and defend his right. This, in the Latin of the time, was

By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verdict in a cause tried out of

Defendemus (we will defend), a word used in grants and donations,

into Court by trustees, or in administration actions, or by defendants in actions. From a parliamentary return in 1900 it appears

Sever. Defendants are said to 'sever' in their defences when they plead

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