Glossary : counterplea
Definition 1
pleading. When a tenant in any real action, tenant by
the curtesy, or tenant in dower, in his answer and plea, vouches any one
to warrant his title, or prays in aid another who has a larger estate, as
of the remainder-man or reversioner or when a stranger to the action comes
and prays to be received to save his estate; then that which the defendant
alleges against it, why it should not be admitted, is called a counterplea.
T. de la Ley; Doct. Placit. 300 Com. Dig. h. t.; Dane"s Ab. Index, h. t.
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