Counterplea

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  counterplea
       n : a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea

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

  COUNTERPLEA, pleading. When a tenant in any real action, tenant by the 


  curtesy, or tenant in dower, in his answer and plea, vouches any one to 
  warrant his title, or prays in aid another who has a larger estate, as of 
  the remainder-man or reversioner or when a stranger to the action comes and 
  prays to be received to save his estate; then that which the defendant 
  alleges against it, why it should not be admitted, is called a counterplea. 
  T. de la Ley; Doct. Placit. 300 Com. Dig. h.t.; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.