interplead

English

Alternative forms

• enterplead

Etymology

inter- +‎ plead

Verb

interplead (third-person singular simple present interpleads, present participle interpleading, simple past and past participle interpleaded or interpled)

1. (law) To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an interpleader.

Related terms

• interplea

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “interplead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• interpaled, interpedal, peridental