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third-party defendant : a third party who is the object of a third-party complaint ...
party
party pl: parties 1 a : one (as a person, group, or entity) constituting alone or with others one of the sides of a proceeding, transaction, or agreement [the parties to a contract] [a person who signed the instrument as a to the instrument "Uniform Commercial Code"] accommodated party : a party to an instrument for whose benefit an accommodation party signs and incurs liability on the instrument : a party for whose benefit an accommodation is made accommodation party : a party who signs and thereby incurs liability on an instrument that is issued for value and given for the benefit of an accommodated party secured party : a party holding a security interest in another's property third party : a person other than the principals [insurance against injury to a third party] b : one (as an individual, firm, or corporation) that constitutes the plaintiff or defendant in an action ;also : one so involved in the prosecution or defense of a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding as t...
Circuity of action
Circuity of action, a longer course of proceeding to recover a thing sued for than is needful--Terms de la Ley; also a general term denoting inter alia a multiplicity of law suits. Wherever the rights of the litigant parties were such that the defendant would be entitled to recover back from the plaintiff the same sum which the plaintiff sought to recover, the defendant might plead the facts which constitute such right as a defence, in order to avoid circuity of action, Bullen & Leake, Prec. of Plead., 3rd ed., p. 558. Now all the counterclaims may be raised in the defence to an action. See Jud. Act, 1873, s. 24(3), and Judicature Act, 1925, s. 39; see also ss. 59 (2) and 61 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882. See COUNTERCLAIM.One of the most beneficial functions of the Chancery Courts was exercised in its concurrent jurisdiction under which all parties concerned were brought before the Court before deciding an action, and see also the third party procedure under R.S.C. Ord. XVI., r. 4...
Parties
Parties, a suit under s. 92 of the code is thus a representative suit and as such binds not only the parties named in the suit-title but all those who are interested in the trust, R. Venugopala Naidu v. Venkatarayulu Naidu Charities, AIR 1990 SC 444 (447): 1989 Supp (2) SCC 356. (Code of Civil Procedure, s. 92)Persons jointly concerned in any deed or 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 the right 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 entitled to redress. Trustees, executors, and administrators may sue and be sued on behalf of or as representing the property or estate of which they are the trustees or representatives, without joining any of the parti...
impleader
impleader : the act or procedural device of impleading a third party ;specif : a petition or complaint brought in a lawsuit by a plaintiff or defendant against a third party who may be liable to that plaintiff or defendant called also third-party practice compare counterclaim, cross-claim, interpleader, intervention, joinder ...
Third party
Third party, means a person other than the citizen making a request for information and includes a public authority. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(n)]Means a person other than the person making a request for information and includes a public authority. [Freedom of Information Act, 2002, s. 2(i)]Means one who is not a party to a lawsuit, agreement, or other transaction but who is somehow involved in the transaction, someone other than the principal parties, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1489.The phrase used to introduce any one into a scene already occupied by two in a definite relation to one another, as principal and agent, guardian and ward, solicitor and client. See AS AGAINST, AS BETWEEN.As to third-party insurance of motor vehicles; by the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), s. 35, users of motor vehicles are to be insured against third-party risks. See Part II. of the Road Traffic Act; the (English) Motor Vehicles (Third Party Ris...
Reply
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....
third-party complaint
third-party complaint : a complaint filed against a third party by a defendant or plaintiff alleging that the third party is liable for all or part of a claim or counterclaim in dispute between the original parties ...
third-party plaintiff
third-party plaintiff : a defendant who files a third-party complaint against a third party ...
Supreme Court of Judicature
Supreme Court of Judicature. By Judicature Act, 1925, s. 1, there shall be a Supreme Court of Judicature in England consisting of His Majesty's High Court of Justice (referred to as the High Court), and His Majesty's Court of Appeal (referred to as the Court of Appeal).Formerly, by the (English) Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873, ss. 3 and 4 (amended by (English) Jud. Act, 1875, s. 9), it was enacted that from the commencement of that Act (November 1, 1875: see Judicature Act, 1875, s. 2) the court of Chancery of England, the Court of Queen's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, the Court of Exchequer, the High Court of Admiralty, the Court of Probate, and the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, should be united and consolidated together, and should constitute one Supreme Court of Judicature in England; the said Supreme Court to consist of two permanent Divisions, being 'Her (now His) Majesty's High Court of Justice' and 'Her (now His) Majesty's Court of Appeal.'S...
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