Undefended

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.

A term sometimes applied to one who is obliged to make his own defence when on trial, or in a civil cause. A cause is said to be undefended when the defendant makes default, in not putting in an appearance to the plaintiff’s action; in not putting in his statement of defence; or, in not appearing at the trial either personally or by counsel, after having received due notice. Lush’s Prac. 548.

Without defense or denial. Under. Beneath, below; subordinate. Under age: not of the age of legal capacity. Under sherift: a person appointed by the sheriff to perform all his ordinary duties in his behalf, and on whom the whole dutiesof the office devolve, in case of a vacancy by death or otherwise, until a new sheriff is chosen, — not to be confounded with deputy sheriff. Under tenant: a tenant under one who is himself a tenant.