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Webster 1913 Edition


Rebutter

Re-but′ter

(rē̍-bŭt′tẽr)
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Noun.
(Law)
The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff’s surrejoinder.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rebutter

REBUT'TER

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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.