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Definition of Counterclaiming
1. counterclaim [v] - See also: counterclaim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterclaiming
Literary usage of Counterclaiming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas for the by Charles Patrick Daly (1892)
"The defendant was not legally obligated to sell and realize upon the stock he
holds as partial security for the debt, before counterclaiming and demanding ..."
2. American Architect and Building News (1908)
"... which, in the absence of a settlement warranted by the evidence, can only be
done by counterclaiming and proving them ; and hence, where the owner, ..."
3. New Cases: Selected Chiefly from Decisions of the Courts of the State of New by Austin Abbott, James MacGregor Smith (1896)
"counterclaiming a prior action pending ; demurrer is proper where defects appears
on the face ... counterclaiming conversion in action for rent, xxiii. 60. ..."
4. A Concise Treatise on the Practice and Procedure in Chancery Actions Under by Sydney Peel (1883)
"The rule applies to a counterclaiming defendant (k). ... Where the plaintiff or
a counterclaiming defendant Statement of causes of joins several causes of ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1906)
"... •within the meaning of the statute, and can be vindicated in the same suit,
the defendant counterclaiming against the plaintiff's cause of action. ..."