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Definition of Codefendants
1. codefendant [n] - See also: codefendant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Codefendants
Literary usage of Codefendants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"... covering the whole case, several persons may be joined as codefendants, though
they may have wholly distinct rights in the subject-matter of the suit.3 ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"But as each of these persons "became[SO] liable, if at all, by reason of a contract
entered into by himself alone, with the making of which his codefendants ..."
3. Federal Equity Practice: A Treatise on the Pleadings Used and Practice by Thomas Atkins Street (1909)
"... codefendants—Cross Bill. In a suit of interpleader the defendant claimants
may assert their interests in the property or fund in controversy in their ..."
4. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"Notice to codefendants to Join in Appeal. ^ [Caption.] Please take notice, that
the city of Kansas City, Missouri, is about to appeal to the supreme court ..."
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