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Joinder of parties
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nonjoinder
nonjoinder : the failure to join a party to a lawsuit
Misjoinder
An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure criminal or civil
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Nonjoinder
The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit or of some cause of action which ought to be joined
Parties
act; litigants. The Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883, Ord. XVI., make very full provision as to the joinder of parties and the consequences of misjoinder and non-joinder. All persons may be joined as plaintiffs in whom
party
without affecting or impairing those rights, no complete disposition of the action can be made without the party's joinder, and whose nonjoinder will result in the dismissal of an action compare necessary party in this entry NOTE:
permissive
same transaction or occurrence as the one at issue in the original claim [a counterclaim] see also permissive joinder at joinder per·mis·sive·ly adv per·mis·sive·ness n
multiplicity
information [ does not require dismissal of the indictment "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] compare duplicity, misjoinder NOTE: Multiplicity raises the risk of violating the double jeopardy protection against receiving multiple sentences for a single
intervention
order to protect his or her own interest in the subject matter of the suit compare impleader, interpleader, joinder NOTE: Intervention developed as a procedure in equity courts. There is some overlap between joinder and intervention because
class action
in a series of individual suits called also class action suit class suit see also certification compare consolidate, joinder test case at case NOTE: Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure sets out the prerequisites
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