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surrebutter Law.|sʌrɪˈbʌtə(r)|
[f. sur- + rebutter, after surrejoinder.]
In old common-law pleading, a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's rebutter. Also transf., a further rejoinder.
a1601Sir T. Fanshawe Pract. Exch. (1658) 146 They must proceed with Rebutter, and sur-rebutter, untill every point materiall be put in perfect issue. 1770Foote Lame Lover ii. Wks. 1782 III. 34 Rejoinders, sur-rejoinders, rebutters, sur-rebutters, replications. 1866Lowell Biglow P. Introd., Poems (1912) 279/2 Mr. Bartlett (in his dictionary above cited) adds a surrebutter in a verse from Ford's ‘Broken Heart’. 1888Morley in Daily News 17 Oct. 6/1 Controversy is seldom profitable after it gets down to the stage of sur-rebutter and sur-rejoinder. 1893Leland Mem. I. 295 Then came the attack on the impropriety of the whole thing, and finally Mr. Barnum's triumphant surrebutter.
So † surrebut n., shortening of or error for surrebutter; surreˈbut v. [cf. rebut] intr. to reply to a rebutter (also transf.); trans. to repel as by a surrebutter; surreˈbuttal [cf. rebuttal], surrebutter.
1587Harrison England ii. ix. (1877) i. 202 The parties plaintiffe & defendant..proceed..by plaint or declaration, barre or answer, replication, reioinder, and so by rebut, surrebut to issue and triall. 1726T. Madox Firma Burgi x. §21. 198 To this William Cokenage Surrebutteth. He saith, That [etc.]. 1845De Quincey Wordsw. Poetry Wks. 1857 VI. 258 A smart reciprocation..of asserting and denying,..butting, rebutting, and ‘surrebutting’. 1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell iv, To revive their efficacy, and so surrebut all let and hindrance. 1889Times 25 Nov. 5/4 The State's rebuttal and surrebuttal of the defence. 1895Q. Rev. July 264 The members of the majority..not unnaturally sur-rebut on this interpretation. 1909E. Banks Myst. Fr. Farrington 311 There were witnesses to come in rebuttal, but he..could call witnesses in surrebuttal. |