impleader
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- noun
- /ɪmˈpliːdər/
- Specialized
- Impleader is intended to foster judicial economy for all parties by resolving allocation issues prior to the entry of judgment.
Examples
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In legal proceedings, an impleader allows defendants to introduce additional parties who may share responsibility for the claim.
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Purely as a linguistic matter, the answer is probably yes and no: the third party is a defendant on the impleader claim but is not an original defendant in the plaintiff's complaint.
Academic text (2017) -
Like Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 14(a), which provides for impleader, section 113(f) provides for the acceleration of contribution claims at the option of the defendant-contribution plaintiff.
Academic text (1990) -
Finding the proposed regime to be contrary to the joinder and impleader provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Senators Thurmond, Simpson, Hatch, and Specter lectured the government's witnesses at length.
Academic text (1990) -
The defendant filed an impleader to bring a third party into the lawsuit over liability issues.
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After reviewing the case, the judge granted the impleader to allow a supplier to be included in the lawsuit.
Synonyms
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Joining people or claims into one court case
Surface Forms
Morphology
impleader = implead (semi-transparent) = implead + er
Formed from the legal verb 'implead' plus the agent/resultive suffix '-er', but the term is specialized and the assimilated im- may not be obvious to learners.
Etymology
Impleader comes from the prefix im- meaning 'in' and the verb plead meaning 'to speak in court'. So an impleader is the act of bringing a third party 'into' a lawsuit so they can 'plead' their part.