Joinder Of Issue
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The acceptance by one party of an issue of fact tendered by the other.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
pleading, is the act by which the parties to a cause, arrive at that stage of it in their pleadings, that one asserts a fact to be so, and the other denies it. For example, when one party denies the fact pleaded by his antagonist, who has tendered the issue thus, ‘‘ And this he prays may be inquired of by the country,” or “ And of this he puts himself upon the country,” the party denying the fact may immediately subjoin, ‘“* And the said A B, does the like,”’ when the issue 18 said to be joined.