Associations to the word «Counterclaim»

Wiktionary

COUNTERCLAIM, noun. (legal) a suit filed by a defendant against a plaintiff secondary to the original complaint.
COUNTERCLAIM, verb. (intransitive) To file a counterclaim.

Dictionary definition

COUNTERCLAIM, noun. A claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action.
COUNTERCLAIM, verb. Set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope