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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 925 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEFENDANT , in See also:

law, a See also:person against whom proceedings are instituted or directed; one who is called upon to See also:answer in any suit. At one See also:time the See also:term " defendant " had a narrower meaning, that of a person sued in a See also:personal See also:action only, the corresponding term in a real action being " See also:tenant," but the distinction is now practically disregarded, except in a few states of the See also:United States.

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