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Webster 1913 Edition
Respondent
Re-spond′ent
(-ent)
, Adj.
[L.
respondens
, p. pr. of respondere
.] Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
Wealth
respondent
to payment and contributions. Bacon.
Re-spond′ent
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
répondant
.] One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant.
Specifically: (a)
(Law)
One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; – distinquished from appellant.
(b)
One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; – distinguished from opponent.
I. Watts.
Webster 1828 Edition
Respondent
RESPOND'ENT
,Adj.
- Wealth respondent to payment and contributions.
RESPOND'ENT
, n.1.
One that answers in a suit, particularly a chancery suit.2.
In the schools, one who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province is to refute objections or overthrow arguments.