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Counterclaim   /kˈaʊntərklˌeɪm/   Listen
Counterclaim

noun
1.
A claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action.
verb
1.
Set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim.





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"Counterclaim" Quotes from Famous Books



... a charge which "would probably not leave a balance so much in favour of His [Britannic] Majesty as His Government may have looked forward to." This retort was not so terrible as it appeared; for most of the papers necessary for the making up of the French counterclaim had been lost or destroyed during the Revolution. Yet the threat told with full effect on Cornwallis, who thereafter referred to the British claim as a "hopeless debt."[187] The officials of Downing Street drew a distinction between prisoners from ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... drove the sheep on to the rails, and proceeded to do so, only to find the sheep, in the meantime, had wandered down the line. Before he could collect them a train dashed into them, and many were killed and others injured. The railway company not only repudiated all liability, but sent in a counterclaim for damage to ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... charge which "would probably not leave a balance so much in favour of His [Britannic] Majesty as His Government may have looked forward to." This retort was not so terrible as it appeared; for most of the papers necessary for the making up of the French counterclaim had been lost or destroyed during the Revolution. Yet the threat told with full effect on Cornwallis, who thereafter referred to the British claim as a "hopeless debt."[187] The officials of Downing Street drew a distinction ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... the lady, sharply. "Very well. And I shall put in a counterclaim for the lunches you carry away from breakfast every morning ...
— Coffee and Repartee • John Kendrick Bangs
... undisturbed by the demands of litigants," ibid. 500-501. The Court went on to hold that when the United States took possession of the assets of Fleet Corporation and assumed its obligations, it did not waive its immunity from suit in a State court on a counterclaim based on the Corporation's breach of contract, ibid. 505. Any consent to be sued will not be held to embrace action in the federal courts unless the language giving consent is clear. Great Northern Life Ins. Co. v. Read, ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin


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