Full defense
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In pleading. The formula of defense in a plea, stated at length and without abbreviation, thuB: "And the said C. D., by ES. F., his attorney, comes and defends the force (or wrong) and injury when and where it shall behoove him, and the damages, and whatsoever else he ought to defend, and says," etc. Steph. Pi. p.
481.