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Definition of Surrebutters
1. surrebutter [n] - See also: surrebutter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surrebutters
Literary usage of Surrebutters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of American Law by John Bouvier (1854)
"... AND surrebutters. 2999. The order and denominations of the alternate allegations
of fact or ... surrebutters."
2. A Manual for English Bar-students by Thomas Spence (1864)
"... and pleadings subsequent to surrebutters. In the action of replevin the
pleadings are, declaration, ..."
3. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"... and surrebutters, which had arisen from accident or had been devised to multiply
fees, or had been properly framed for a very different state of society ..."