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surrejoinder Law.|sʌrɪˈdʒɔɪndə(r)|
[f. sur- + rejoinder.]
In old common-law pleading, a plaintiff's reply to the defendant's rejoinder. Also transf. an answer to a rejoinder or reply (in general).
The order of the pleadings is: plaintiff's declaration, defendant's plea, plaintiff's replication, defendant's rejoinder, plaintiff's surrejoinder, defendant's rebutter, plaintiff's surrebutter.
1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 27 §50 The Prenotarye to have for the..replicacion, rejoyndre, surrejoyndre, for everye of them if they be enrolled..xijd. 1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes's Trial 47 The whole three dayes first defence being made intirely together, and then the Reply, Rejoinder, and Surrejoinder thereunto. 1682Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 236 The atturney generall hath pleaded in surrejoinder to the citty of Londons rejoinder to the quo warranto against their charter. 1770[see surrebutter]. 1886W. E. Norris My Friend Jim I. 70 To make such a rejoinder as that would only have been to expose myself to a surrejoinder which it would have been..futile to attempt to rebut. 1903Morley Gladstone II. v. iii. 49 Mr. Gladstone..was too much in earnest to forego rejoinder and even surrejoinder. |