Word Meanings - SURREBUTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.

Related words: (words related to SURREBUTER)

• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• REPLY
  To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref.
• REPLYER
  See BACON
• DEFENDANT
  1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense.
• REBUTTER
  The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
• CODEFENDANT
  A joint defendant. Blackstone.