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Undefended

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In pleading. Without defense or denial. Where judgment passes by default against a defendant, the language in which the default is recorded is that the defendant "says nothing in bar or preclusion of the action, whereby the plaintiff remains therein undefended against the said defendant."

Archb. Forms, 336.

UNDER-CHAMBERLAINS OF THE Exchequer. Two officers who cleaved the tallies written by the clerk of the tallies, and read the same, that the clerk of the pell and comptrollers thereof might see their entries were true. They also made searches for records in the treasury, and had the custody of Domesday Book. Abolished.