third opposition
third opposition. Civil law. A species of intervention, usu. in a real-property case, in which the third party asserts a claim of ownership or other real right to seized property, and the claim does not depend on the outcome of the original suit between the plaintiff and the defendant. La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 1092. See, e.g., Atkins v. Smith, 15 So. 2d 855 (La. 1943). See INTERVENTION(1).
