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third-party plaintiff
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Third party plaintiff
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party
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 … 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
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answer
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,
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
Reply
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.
rescue doctrine
whose negligence was the proximate cause of a peril from which the plaintiff reasonably undertook to rescue a third party NOTE: The act of rescue itself is considered foreseeable, and the negligence of the defendant is considered to
third-party complaint
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interplead
each other in order to settle adverse claims to property held by or an obligation owed by a third party (as an insurance company) [may be joined as defendants and required to when their claims are such that … an insurance company) [may be joined as defendants and required to when their claims are such that the plaintiff is or may be exposed to double or multiple liability "Official Code of Georgia Annotated"]
Champarty or champerty
a division of the land], properly a bargain between a plaintiff or defendant in a suit and a third person, campum partire, to divide between them the land or other matter sued for in the event of … the event of the litigant being successful in the suit, whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's suit or action at his own expense; or it is the purchasing the right of action or suit
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