Definition of Misjoinder

1. n. An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.

Definition of Misjoinder

1. Noun. (legal) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure in criminal or civil court. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Misjoinder

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misjoinder

misinterpreted
misinterpreter
misinterpreters
misinterpreting
misinterprets
misinterred
misinterring
misinters
misinvest
misinvested
misinvesting
misinvestment
misinvestments
misinvests
misjoin
misjoinder (current term)
misjoinders
misjoined
misjoining
misjoins
misjudge
misjudged
misjudgement
misjudgements
misjudges
misjudging
misjudgment
misjudgments
miskal
miskals

Literary usage of Misjoinder

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)
"Where the misjoinder does not appear from the petition or complaint, the objection ... Advantage of a misjoinder of a part) plaintiff cannot be taken by a ..."

2. The Law of Patents for Useful Inventions by William Callyhan Robinson (1890)
"misjoinder of Plaintiffs. The misjoinder of plaintiffs, not being real parties in interest, can be taken advantage of by the defendant on a demurrer to the ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"A misjoinder of counts may be taken advantage of by a general demurrer. ... If the only counts that are good may be properly joined, the misjoinder of a ..."

4. Pleading Under the Codes: Adapted to Use in the Several States and by Charles Theodore Boone (1885)
"... is expressly made a ground of demurrer.2 In other States, a misjoinder of parties, plaintiff but not defendant, is expressly made a ground of demurrer.3 ..."

5. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, Thomas Emerson Headlam (1846)
"If the misjoinder is of parties plaintiffs, all the defendants may demur. such a misjoinder is a proper ground of objection. If the misjoinder is of parties ..."

6. Code Remedies: Remedies and Remedial Rights by the Civil Action According to by John Norton Pomeroy, Thomas Ashford Bogle (1904)
"misjoinder of Defendants. Two Cases herein. Two Aspects of True Case of ... I pass now to the misjoinder or improper uniting of defendants.2 Two cases ..."

7. Estee's Pleadings, Practice and Forms by Morris March Estee, John Haynes (1879)
"Where a misjoinder of parties plaintiff does not appear upon the face of the ... misjoinder of parties plaintiff, owing to matters which have occurred ..."

8. A Summary of the Law of Parties to Actions at Law and Suits in Equity by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour (1864)
"CONSEQUENCES OP A NONJOINDER, OR A misjoinder. I misjoinder of parties consists in joining, as plaintiffs or It defendants, persons who have not a joint ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Misjoinder on Dictionary.com!Search for Misjoinder on Thesaurus.com!Search for Misjoinder on Google!Search for Misjoinder on Wikipedia!

Search