rebutter

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REBUT'TER, noun In law pleadings, the answer of a defendant to a plaintiff's sur-rejoinder. If I grant to a tenant to hold without impeachment of waste, and afterward implead him for waste done, he may debar me of this action by showing my grant, which is a rebutter
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