Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Joinder

n. The uniting of parties or claims in a single lawsuit. - join, ub. Cf. CONSOLIDATION (4).

Misjoinder

See MISJOINDER. nonjoinder. See NONJOINDER.

Nonjoinder

The failure to bring a person who is a necessary party into a lawsuit. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(7), 19. Cf. JOINDER; MISJOINDER; DISJOINDER.

Rejoinder

n. Common-law pleading. The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's reply (or replication). - rejoin, vb.

Surrejoinder

Common-law pleading. The plaintiff's answer to the defendant's rejoinder. See REPLICATION. "Where the common-law system of pleading is in force, the pleadings do not terminate with the plaintiff's replication. The defendant may interpose a rejoinder to the replication, and the plaintiff a surrejoinder to the defendant's rejoinder. Then follows the rebutter, which in turn may be met by a surrebutter." 61A Am. Jur. 2d Pleading ยง 193, at 192 (1981).

collusive joinder

See JOINDER.

compulsory joinder

See JOINDER.

disjoinder

The undoing of the joinder of parties or claims. See JOINDER. Cf MISJOINDER; NONJOINDER.

fraudulent joinder

The bad-faith joinder of a party, usu. a resident of the state, to prevent removal of a case to federal court.

fraudulent joinder.

See JOINDER.

joinder in demurrer

See JOINDER.

joinder in issue

See joinder of issue (2) under JOINDER.

joinder in pleading

Common-law pleading. One party's acceptance of the opposing party's proposed issue and mode of trial.

joinder of error

A written denial of the errors alleged in an assignment of errors in a criminal case.

joinder of issue

See JOINDER.

joinder of issue.

1. The submission of an issue jointly for decision. 2. The acceptance or adoption of a disputed point as the basis of argument in a controversy. - Also termed joinder in issue. 3. The taking up of the opposite side of a case, or of the contrary view on a question.

joinder of offenses

See JOINDER.

joinder of remedies

See JOINDER.

joinder of remedies.

The joinder of alternative claims, such as breach of contract and quantum meruit, or of one claim with another prospective claim, such as a creditor's claim against a debtor to recover on a loan and the creditor's claim against a third party to set aside the transfer of the loan's collateral.

mandatory joinder

See compulsory joinder under JOINDER.

mandatory joinder.

See compulsory joinder.

misjoinder

1. The improper union of parties in a civil case. See JOINDER. Cf. DISJOINDER; NONJOINDER. 2. The improper union of offenses in a criminal case.

permissive joinder

See JOINDER.

permissive joinder.

The optional joinder of parties if (1) their claims or the claims asserted against them are asserted jointly, severally, or in respect of the same transaction or occurrence, and (2) any legal or factual question common to all of them will arise. Fed. R. Civ. P. 20.