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counterplea

NOUN
  1. a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea

How To Use counterplea In A Sentence

  • -- _Spigornel_ (for Adam): 'Sir, according to the custom of the town, he is of age when he knows how to count up to twelve pence, and he shall answer in a writ of Right at that age; and inasmuch as he would answer in a writ of Right at that age, he shall warrant at that age, or shall counterplead, &c. The Customs of Old England
  • And potato net still applied " port principle " undertake counterplea , potato net puts forward to had not received obligee notice reason should not assume liability to pay compensation.
  • Judgment if he shall not warrant or counterplead. ' The Customs of Old England
  • And potato net still applied " port principle " undertake counterplea , potato net puts forward to had not received obligee notice reason should not assume liability to pay compensation.
  • At com - mon law, if a ftranger was vouched, the demandant could not counterplead it; but by Weft. Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;
  • a criminal one, instituted to bring about the legal punishment of the guilty party, or one of certain other exceptional cases, he may, after hearing the cause of the summons, immediately enter a counterplea against the plaintiff before the same judge. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • At present there are two kinds of theories on main contents of counterplea for joint dangerous act: affirmance theory and denial theory, which are both not distributive.
  • II, xii); also the forum of a counterplea (forum reconventionis sive reaccusationis), i.e. in a criminal suit the defendant can, on his side, accuse the plaintiff in the court of the judge before whom he himself is to be tried (c. ii, X, De mut. petit., The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • Confronted with this picture of insensate delusion and folly, the critical reader will immediately counterplead that England all this time was conducting a war which involved the organization of several millions of fighting men and of the workers who were supplying them with provisions, munitions, and transport, and that this could not have been done by a mob of hysterical ranters. Heartbreak House
  • But his counterplea when it came was of a disconcerting briefness and potency. The Collectors
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