Definition of Codefendants

1. Noun. (plural of codefendant) ¹

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Definition of Codefendants

1. codefendant [n] - See also: codefendant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Codefendants

codebase
codebases
codebook
codebooks
codebreaker
codebreakers
codebreaking
codebtor
codebtors
codec
codecarboxylase
codecs
coded
codeface
codefendant
codefendants (current term)
codeformational
codehydrogenase I
codehydrogenase II
codeia
codeias
codein
codeina
codeinas
codeine
codeine phosphate
codeine sulfate
codeinelike
codeines
codeinone

Literary usage of Codefendants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"... covering the whole case, several persons may be joined as codefendants, though they may have wholly distinct rights in the subject-matter of the suit.3 ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"But as each of these persons "became[SO] liable, if at all, by reason of a contract entered into by himself alone, with the making of which his codefendants ..."

3. Federal Equity Practice: A Treatise on the Pleadings Used and Practice by Thomas Atkins Street (1909)
"... codefendants—Cross Bill. In a suit of interpleader the defendant claimants may assert their interests in the property or fund in controversy in their ..."

4. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"Notice to codefendants to Join in Appeal. ^ [Caption.] Please take notice, that the city of Kansas City, Missouri, is about to appeal to the supreme court ..."

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