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. BLACK p. 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.

p.495

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/R-Page1.aspx)

29. Locus Standi

30. Probate

31. Mens Rea