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Reply, the response of the opening counsel on a trial, which is only allowed when evidence has been given in answer to the case first stated, except in the case of the Crown, which is always entitled to reply. See Criminal Procedure Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18), which applies to civil as well as criminal cases.Also the pleading of the plaintiff which follows the defendant's statement of his defence or counter-claim (see R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXIII.), by which (r. 1), where plaintiff desires to deliver a reply, he shall deliver it within seven days from the delivery of the defence; (r. 2), when a counterclaim is pleaded, a reply thereto shall be subject to the rules applicable to defences. See ISSUE and PLEADING.In federal practice, the plaintiff's response to the defendant's counterclaim (or, by court order, to the defendant's or a third party answer), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1302....
reply brief
reply brief : a brief that is filed with the plaintiff's reply and that sets forth the arguments in support thereof ...
reply
reply : a plaintiff's or complainant's response to a plea, allegation, or counterclaim in the defendant's answer ...
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)....
answer
answer 1 : the defendant's written response to the plaintiff's complaint in a civil suit in which he or she may deny any of plaintiff's allegations, offer any defenses, and make any counterclaims against the plaintiff, cross-claims against other defendants, or third-party claims against third parties otherwise not involved in the lawsuit 2 : a written response to a counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim : reply see also responsive pleading at pleading NOTE: In federal cases, answers are governed by Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Under Rule 12, certain defenses (as lack of jurisdiction) may be made by motion rather than included in the answer. vi 1 : to serve or file an answer 2 : to make oneself responsible or accountable (as for the debt of another) vt 1 : to reply to in an answer [ the complaint] 2 : to make a defense against (as a charge or accusation) an·swer·able adj ...
rejoinder
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
An answer to a reply or in general an answer or reply...
Issue
Issue [fr. exitus, Lat.], used in several senses:-(1) The legitimate offspring of parents. The word 'issue' in a will was either a word of purchase or of limitation, as would best answer the intention of the testator; and for the effect of the word in the case of a deed, see Norton on Deeds. Now the rule in Shelley's case (q.v.), having been abolished by s. 131, in instruments made or in wills upon death after 1925, 'issue' will be construed as a word of pur-chase [(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 131], and s. 130, by implication abolishes the rule in Wild's case, (1599) 6 Co Rep 16 b, 17 a (q.v.), in such cases, 2 Fonbl. Eq. 69.(2) The profits arising from lands or tenements, amerciaments, or fines.(3) Event, consequence, evacuation, sending forth.(4) The point in question, as the conclusion of the pleadings between contending parties in an action, when one side affirms and the other denies.It is provided by the present rules of pleading that the plaintiff by his reply may join...
Quasi judicial, quasi
Quasi judicial, quasi, A quasi-judicial function has been termed to be one which stands midway a judicial and an administrative function. The primary test is as to whether the authority alleged to be a quasi-judicial, has any express statutory duty to act judicially in arriving at the decision in question. If the reply is in affirmative, the authority would be deemed to be quasi-judicial, and if the reply is in the negative, it would not be. The dictionary meaning of the word 'quasi' is, 'not exactly', State of Himachal Pradesh v. Raja Mahendra Pal, (1999) 4 SCC 93: AIR 1999 SC 1786. [H.P. Forest Produce (Regulation of Trade) Act, 1982 (5 of 1982)]...
Return of post
Return of post, means 'if a person makes an offer saying that its acceptance must be communicated by return of post: that does not mean, exclusively a reply by letter by return of post. A reply by telegram or by verbal message, or by any means not later than a letter written and sent by return of post would reach, is within the meaning of 'return of post', Tinn v. Hoffmann & Co., (1873) 29 LT 271...
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