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Meaning Of Respondent
a.
Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according;
corresponding.
n.
One who responds. It corresponds in general to
defendant.
n.
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.
n.
One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province
it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished
from opponent.