repleader

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noun

A second pleading, or course of pleadings.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounrepleader (plural repleaders)

plural repleaders

  1. lawA second pleading, or course of pleadings.

    Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo.

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
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    When a repleader is awarded , the amendment must begin where the plea, which makes the issue bad, begins to be the faulty ( a );

    1794, Modern Reports - Volume 6, page 2

    The Circuit Court should have been moved for a repleader; had they refused, such refusal is assignable for error.

    1926, Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, page 912

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