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A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading. Burrill.

The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant. The cause of both parties shall come before the judges. Ex. xxii. 9.

and absolute mandamus. -- Peremptory plea, a plea by a defendant tending to impeach the plaintiff's right of action; a plea in bar.

e enforced, as distinguished from a possessory suit; also (Scots Law), a suit wherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant. Burrill.

One who makes complaint; the plaintiff. [Obs.]

rer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or…

To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in…

The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.

A plaintiff; a prosecutor.

ed] (Law), a count in an action grounded on a promise that the defendant would pay to the plaintiff for his service as much as he should deserve. -- Quantum sufficit (, or Quantum suff. Etym: [L., as much suffices] (Med.), a sufficient quantity. -- Quantum valebat ( Etym: [L., as much at it was worth] (Law), a count…

A complainant; a plaintiff.

To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant. Blackstone.

The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.

The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.

A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge. Burrill. Bouvier.

to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.

To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.

To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.