Surrebutter
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The plaintiff's answer to the defendant's rebutter. It is the plaintiff's fourth pleading in the complete series of pleadings used at common law. But the pleadings very seldom reached the surrebutter, even in the palmy days of special pleading. In English practice, as under the reformed codes and practice acts of most of the.states, the surrebutter is no longer known.