n. that point in a lawsuit when the defendant has challenged (denied) some or all of plaintiff's allegations of facts, and/or when it is known which legal questions are in dispute. This is stated in the expression: "the issue is joined," in the same manner as a military man would say: "the battle has been joined," meaning the fight is underway. Thu...
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When the defendants denies or challenges the claims, evidences and allegations on himself, it`s a moment which is called the joinder of issue.
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The act by which the parties to a cause arrive at that stage of it in their pleadings, that one asserts a fact to be so and the other denies it. For example, when one party denies the fact pleaded by his antagonist who has tendered the issue thus, "And this he prays may be inquired of by the country," or "And of this he puts himself upon the countr...
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