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Joinder

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A joining or uniting together; persons or things together; as of several persons as plaintiffs or defendants in one suit, or of several causes of action, or counts, in one declaration. 1 Chit. PI. 8, 41, 64, 84, 199.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To act jointly with; to join.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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