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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a jury verdict-or the effect of the verdict on non-settling defendants-to account for settlement funds the plaintiff has received from former

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