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Allegiare

Allegiare, to defend or justify by due course of law.

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

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Next friend

guardian might sue by his guardian, as such, or by his next friend, though he must always have defended by his guardian. In equity he sued by next friend, and not by guardian, and defended by guardian

Parties

to any relief claimed is alleged to exist, whether jointly, severally, or in the alter-native. Two or more defendants may be joined, in case the plaintiff is in doubt as to the person from whom he is

Mary Carter agreement

agreement between a plaintiff and one or more but not all codefendants which limits the liability of the defendants by giving them an interest in the recovery awarded to the plaintiff NOTE: In a Mary Carter agreement,

Judgment

of the other, as the case may be. By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verdict in a cause tried out of term, was entitled to issue execution in fourteen

Advow, or Avow, or Avouch

the right of a tenant was impugned, he had to call upon his lord to come forward and defend his right. This, in the Latin of the time, was called advocare, Fr. voucher a garantie, to vouch

Plea

a cause as distinguished from a demurrer in a still more limited sense and in modern practice the defendants answer to the plaintiffs declaration and demand That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and

interplead

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

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