Rejoinder
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication.
Andr. Steph. PL 151.
It must conform to the plea; Keay v. Goodwin, 16 Mass. 1; 2 Mod. 343; be triable, certain, direct, and positive, and not by way of recital, or argumentative; Lewis v. Cooke, 1 H. & McH. (Md.) 159; must answer every material averment of the declaration; Judge of Probate v. Ordway, 23 N. H. 198. It must not be double; Neff v. Powell, 6 Blackf. (Ind.) 421; U. S. v. Cumpton, 3 Mc- Lean 163, Fed. Cas. No. 14,902; and there may not be several rejoinders to the same replication; Slocumb’s Adrn’r v. Holmes’s Adm’r, 1 How. (Miss.) 139; 1 Wins. Saund. 337, n.; nor repugnant or insensible.
See Co. Litt. 394; Archb. Civ. PI. 278; Comyns, Dig. Pleader (H).