SURREJOINDER

surrejoinder (s[schwa]r-ri-joyn-d[schwa]r).Common-law pleading. The plaintiff’s answer to the defendant’s rejoinder. See REPLICATION. [Cases: Pleading 184.] “Where the common-law system of pleading is in force, the pleadings do not terminate with the plaintiff’s replication. The defendant may interpose a rejoinder to the replication, and the plaintiff a surrejoinder to the defendant’s rejoinder. Then follows the rebutter, […]