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rejoinder [Anglo-French, from rejoindre rejoinder to make rejoinder, literally, to join again, meet, from Old French, from re- again + joindre to join] : an answer to a reply ;specif : the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's reply or replication under common-law pleading ...
Rejoinder
Rejoinder, a defendant's answer to a plaintiff's reply, which must have been delivered within four days after notice, unless the defendant was under any terms of 'rejoining gratis,' which meant rejoining within four days from the delivery of the replication without a notice to rejoin, or a demand of a rejoinder.By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXIII., no pleading subsequent to reply, other than a joinder of issue, may be pleaded without leave, except in Admiralty actions, and subject to this rule every pleading subsequent to reply must be delivered within four days after the delivery of the previous pleading. The pleadings subsequent to reply are Rejoinder, Surrejoinder, Rebutter and Surrebutter (see those titles)....
Rebutter
Rebutter [fr. repello, Lat., to put back or bar], the answer of a defendant to a plaintiff's sur-rejoinder. See REJOINDER....
Surrejoinder
Surrejoinder, an answer to a rejoinder; a pleading by the defendant. See now PLEADING and REJOINDER...
surrejoinder
surrejoinder : an answer to a rejoinder ...
Rejoinder
An answer to a reply or in general an answer or reply...
Duplicatio
Duplicatio, the Roman pleading answering to our rejoinder....
Surrebutter
Surrebutter. This was the last pleading bearing a name at Common Law; a plaintiff's answer to a defendant's rebutter. See now PLEADING and REJOINDER....
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