1) Civil procedure
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Impleader is a procedural device before trial in which one party joins a third party into a lawsuit because that third party is liable to an original defendant. Using the vocabulary of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the defendant seeks to become a third-party plaintiff by filing a third party complaint against a third party not presently pa...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impleader
• (n.) One who prosecutes or sues another.
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(from the article `joinder and impleader`) in law, processes whereby additional parties or additional claims are brought into suits because addressing them is necessary or desirable for the ... ...the pending lawsuit if their own claim has a sufficiently close connection in law or fact. Furthermore, in certain cases a defendant may brin...
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A third party is brought into the lawsuit who will be liable for the plaintiff's claim and would be fulfilling the same. This is the process or procedure taken up by the defendant when he knows that this third party can payoff the plaintiffs claim for him. This third party is the impleader. usually the insurance companies with whom certain third pa...
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21213
Im·plead'er noun (Law) One who prosecutes or sues another.
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/20
A procedure in which one party brings a third party into a lawsuit. Usually a defendant initiates the proceeding to show that the third party is liable to the plaintiff. Compare: interpleader
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http://www.nolo.com/dictionary/impleader-term.html
An addition of a third party to an action by the defendant.
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https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22316
a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party. Also called
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