interpleader

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The interpleader is a third party who demands that the courts settle this, because harm will accrue to the interpleader.

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  1. noun Law A procedure to determine which of two parties making the same claim against a third party is the rightful claimant.

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  • This lawsuit is an interpleader action, and the reason we went this way is because an interpleader action will shift the burden of proof to Barack Obama. —  Latest Articles
  • The interpleader argument seems particularly powerful. —  GINA COBB
  • The interpleader is a third party who demands that the courts settle this, because harm will accrue to the interpleader. —  GINA COBB
  • But with Obama, the interpleader can be anyone who has taken an oath to defend the Constitution. —  GINA COBB
  • The interpleader action filed by Berg on December 31, 2008, on behalf of Gregory S. Hollister, —  Yannone
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  1. Anglo-Norman enterpleder, to interplead, interpleader; see interplead.

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  1. from interplead + -er.
  2. Formerly also enterpleader; from inter- + pleader, a plea, from Old French plaider, plead, infinitive as a noun: see plead.
 

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