Joinder

Joining or coupling together; uniting two or more constituents or elements in one; uniting with another person in some legal step or proceeding.

— Joinder in demurrer. When a defendant in an action tenders an issue of law, (called a "demurrer,") the plaintiff, if he means to maintain his action, must accept it, and this acceptance of the defendant's tender, signified by the plaintiff in a set form of words, is calied a "joinder in demurrer." Brown.

— Joinder in issue. In pleading. A formula by which one of the parties to a suit joins in or accepts an issue in fact tendered by the opposite party. Steph. PI. 57, 236. More commonly termed a "similiter." (q. v.)

— Joinder in pleading. Accepting the issue, and mode of trial tendered, either by demurrer, error, or issue, in fact, by the opposite party.

— Joinder of actions. This expression signifies the uniting of two or more demands or rights of action in one action ; the statement of more than one cause of action in a declaration.

— Joinder of error. In proceedings on a writ of error in criminal cases, the joinder of error is a written denial of the errors alleged in the assignment of errors. It answers to a joinder of issue in an action.

— Joinder of offenses. The uniting of several distinct charges of crime in the same indictment or prosecution.

— Joinder of parties. The uniting of two or more persons as co-plaintiffs or as co-defendants in one suit.

— Misjoinder. The improper joining together of parties to a suit, as plaintiffs or defendants, or of different causes of action. Burstall v. Beyfus, 53 Law J. Ch 567; Fhenix Iron Foundry v. Lockwood, 21 R. I. 556, 45 Atl. 546.

— Nonjoinder. The omission to join some person as party to a suit, whether as plaintiff or defendant, who ought to have been so joined, according to the rules of pleading and practice.