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Definition of Co-defendant

1. Noun. A defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action.

Definition of Co-defendant

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of codefendant) ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Co-defendant

Literary usage of Co-defendant

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

1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps, Andrew Amos (1838)
"co-defendant suffering judgment by default. Held competent for co- defendant. If, however, a defendant, who has suffered judgment by default be so situated, ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads: Containing a Consideration of the ...by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1922)
"Effect of verdict against company and in favor of co-defendant employe.—The question has arisen as to whether a verdict in the case of a railroad company, ..."

3. Digest of Decisions of Law and Practice in the Patent Office and the United by Amos Winfield Hart (1898)
"The joining of the president of a corporation as co-defendant on a complaint alleging that the corporation and the president have infringed complainant's ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... may be examined as a witness on the behalf of the plaintiff or of any co-defendant in any such cause, saving just exceptions; and that any interest ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... wholly between the administrator and the petitioner, which can be fully determined as between them without the presence of petitioner's co-defendant; ..."

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