1. G.R.

General Register
2. Cause of Action - A set of facts or allegations that make up the
grounds for filing a lawsuit.
(http://www.lectlaw.com/def/c217.htm) (The Lectric Law Library)
3. Class Suit - When different persons combine their lawsuits into
one opposed to a common defendant, because the facts are
sufficiently similar. (Duhaimes Law Dictionary:
http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/C-Page2.aspx)
4. Pleadings
That core document(s) of a party to litigation in which he or she formally sets out the
facts and the law which support that party's position.
http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/P-Page2.aspx
Motion
A proposal made to a Court or at a meeting and intended to be considered and
decided upon. http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/M-Page2.aspx

5. Complaint - COMPLAINT
In a civil action, the document that initiates a lawsuit. The
complaint outlines the alleged facts of the case and the basis for
which a legal remedy is sought. In a criminal action, a complaint
is the preliminary charge filed by the complaining party, usually
with the police or a court.
The complaint is the first court paper filed in a lawsuit. It briefly states the plaintiff's view
of the crux of the legal dispute and asks the court to resolve the dispute. In some types of
cases and in certain states, a complaint is called a petition or a libel.
(http://www.lectlaw.com/def/c080.htm)
6. Answer - A formal response to allegations made in a complaint
(or petition) (http://www.lectlaw.com/def/a057.htm).
7. Reply - what the plaintiff, petitioner, or other person who has
instituted a proceeding says In answer to the defendant's case
Law Dictionary: What is REPLY? definition of REPLY (Black's Law
Dictionary)
8. Rejoinder - The name of the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's
replication.
The general requisites of a rejoinder are, 1. It must be triable. 2. It

must not be double, nor will several rejoinders be allowed to the same
declaration. 3. It must be certain. 4. It must be direct and positive, and
not merely by way of recital or argumentative. 5. it must not be
repugnant or insensible. 6. It must be conformable to, and not depart
from the plea. (http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/q128.htm)

In common-law pleading. The sec- ond pleading on the part of the defendant,
being his answer to the plaintiff's replication. BLACKp.1528

9. Sur-rejoinder - In pleading. The plaintiff's answer of fact to the defendant's

rejoinder. Steph. Pl. 59. It is governed in every respect by the same rules as the
replication. Steph. PL 77; 7 Com. Dig. 389. . P.1689

10. Counterclaim - A claim presented by a de- fendant in opposition to or

deduction from the claim of the plaintiff. A species of set-off or re- coupment
introduced by the codes of civil pro- cedure in many of the states, of a broad
and lib- eral character. Quoted in Wollan v. McKay, 24 Idaho, 691, 135 P. 832,
837.

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11. Compulsory Counterclaim 12. Cross-clam
13. Third Party Complaint
14. Verification
15. Certiorari under Rule 65
16. Prohibition
17. Mandamus
18. Injunction
19. Intrinsic Fraud v. Extrinsic Fraud
20. The phrase does not lie
21. Summons
22. Subpeona Duces Tecum v. Subpoena Ad Testificandum
23. Usury

24. Deposition
25. Senate Blue Ribbon Committee
26. Expropriation
27. Attachment
28. Replevin - A legal action taken to reclaim goods which have been distrained.
(http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/RPage1.aspx)

29. Locus Standi

30. Probate
31. Mens Rea