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DEFENDANT

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 925 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEFENDANT  , in

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law, a
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person against whom proceedings are instituted or directed; one who is called upon to
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answer in any suit . At one
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time the
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term " defendant " had a narrower meaning, that of a person sued in a
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personal
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action only, the corresponding term in a real action being "
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tenant," but the distinction is now practically disregarded, except in a few states of the
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United States .

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