Full Defence
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In pleading. The formula of defence in a plea, stated at length and without abbreviation, thus: " And the said C. D., by E. 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," <&c.
Steph. FL (Am. ed. 1824,) ch. i. sect, vii. rule v.