Meaning & use
Surrejoinder
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In common law pleading, a plaintiff's response to a defendant's rejoinder.
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The plaintiff filed a surrejoinder addressing each point raised in the defendant's rejoinder.
Modern civil procedure rarely uses formal surrejoinders, having replaced them with simplified pleading rules.
A note on using this word
Part of an old sequence of formal legal pleadings — declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, and surrebutter — mostly obsolete in modern practice.
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