ANTITHETARIUS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ANTITHETARIUS, old English law. The name given to a man who endeavors to
  discharge himself of the crime of which he is accused, by retorting the
  charge on the accuser. He differs from an approver (q, v.) in this, that the
  latter does not charge the accuser, but others. Jacob's Law Dict.