Respondent

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Respondent \Re*spond"ent\ (-ent), a. [L. respondens, p. pr. of
     respondere.]
     Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according;
     corresponding.
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           Wealth respondent to payment and contributions.
                                                    --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Respondent \Re*spond"ent\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]pondant.]
     One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant.
     Specifically:
     (a) (Law) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings,
         generally those which are not according to the course of
         the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in
         petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished
         from appellant.
     (b) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province
         it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; --
         distinguished from opponent. --I. Watts.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  respondent
       adj : replying; "an answering glance"; "an answering smile" [syn:
             {answering}]
       n 1: the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is
            accused of adultery with the corespondent
       2: someone who responds [syn: {responder}, {answerer}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "respondent":
     accused, answerer, answering, antiphonal, confutative,
     correspondent, defendant, echoic, echoing, libelee, prisoner,
     reacting, reactionary, reactive, reechoing, reflex, reflexive,
     refluent, refutative, rejoining, replier, replying, responder,
     responding, responser, responsive, retroactionary, retroactive,
     returning, revulsive, suspect
  
  

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

  RESPONDENT, practice. The party who makes an answer to a bill or other 
  proceeding in chancery. In the civil law, this term signifies one who 
  answers or is security for another; a fidejussor. Dig. 2, 8, 6.