implead

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMPLE'AD, verb transitive [in and plead.] To institute and prosecute a suit against one in court; to sue at law. The corporation shall have power to plead and be impleaded. Let them implead one another. Acts 19:38.
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