nonjoindern.
/nɒnˈdʒɔɪndə/, U.S. /nɑnˈdʒɔɪndər/ Law.
The omission of a person from an action at law. Cf. misjoinder n.
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1823 H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 8 451 This Court will not suffer its jurisdiction to be ousted by the mere joinder or non-joinder or formal parties.
1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 42 §10 The..Defendants who shall have so pleaded in Abatement the Nonjoinder of such Person.
1887 Law Times Rep. 58 112/1 Under the old practice..their non-joinder could have been made the subject of a plea in abatement.
1937 Internat. Affairs 16 444 It is..noteworthy that the first ‘non-joinder’..came ‘at the very outset’ not from the British, but from the American, side.
1957 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 51 820 Effect of non-joinder of Attorney General as party to an application for review.
1986 C. Wright et al. Fed. Pract. & Procedure vii. v. 440 Misjoinder and nonjoinder of parties were fatal defects in actions at common law.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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