judgment setoff
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setoff of judgments — A right of an equitable nature, arising as an incident of the general jurisdiction of the court over its suitors, whereby the satisfaction of a judgment may be wholly or partly produced by compelling a judgment creditor to accept in payment a… … Ballentine's law dictionary
consideration — Synonyms and related words: TLC, Trinkgeld, accent, accommodatingness, account, action, admiration, adoration, advertence, advertency, advisement, agreeableness, airing, alertness, ambition, amends, analysis, anticipation, apotheosis, application … Moby Thesaurus
recoupment — re·coup·ment /ri küp mənt/ n 1: the process or fact of recouping recoupment of expenses 2 a: a keeping back of all or part of a sum sought by a plaintiff in the interest of equity see also equitable recoupment b … Law dictionary
impression — Synonyms and related words: Ditto copy, Photostat, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Xerox, Xerox copy, absorption and regurgitation, aesthetic form, affect, affection, alveolation, alveolus, angle, apprehension, aquatint, archetype, aroma, art form … Moby Thesaurus
deduction — Synonyms and related words: Baconian method, a fortiori reasoning, a posteriori reasoning, a priori reasoning, abatement, ablation, abrasion, abridgment, abstraction, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agio, alleviation,… … Moby Thesaurus
penalty — Synonyms and related words: abatement, acquittal, agio, allowance, amercement, bank discount, breakage, burden, burthen, cargo, cash discount, castigation, chain discount, charge, charge off, chastening, chastisement, concession, condemnation,… … Moby Thesaurus
reverse — Synonyms and related words: Hydromatic, abandon, abolish, about face, about turn, abrogate, adversative, adverse, adversity, adversive, afterpart, afterpiece, afterthoughts, alter, annul, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antipodal, antipode,… … Moby Thesaurus
counterclaim — A claim which, if established, will defeat or in some way qualify the judgment or relief to which the plaintiff is otherwise entitled. 20 Am J2d Countcl § 3; a counter demand or a cause of action existing in favor of the defendant against the… … Ballentine's law dictionary
mutuality of parties and demands — A matter of demands between the same parties in the same capacity at the same time and mutuality as to the quality of the right. 20 Am J2d Countcl § 74. The setoff or counterclaim must be such a demand that defendant, in his own name, or in the… … Ballentine's law dictionary
