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A crossclaim is a claim asserted between codefendants or coplaintiffs in a case and that relates to the subject of the original claim or counterclaim according to Black's Law Dictionary.
Rule 14(a)(1): The nonparty must be served with the third party complaint as well as a summons. If the original defendant intends to do this more than 14 days after serving its original answer, it must first, by motion, obtain the court's leave to do so. Rule 14(a)(2): When properly served, the third-party defendant
Interpleader is a civil procedure device that allows a plaintiff or a defendant to initiate a lawsuit in order to compel two or more other parties to litigate a dispute. An interpleader action originates when the plaintiff holds property on behalf of another, but does not know to whom the property should be transferred.
[1] Similarly, for example, the California Code of Civil Procedure provides that a motion to strike may be made to strike out any "irrelevant, false, or improper matter inserted in any pleading." [2] A motion to strike may also be used to request the elimination of all or a portion of a trial witness's testimony.
Code pleading also drastically shortened the pleading process. Most of the old common law pleadings were abolished. From now on, a case required only a complaint and an answer, with an optional cross-complaint and cross-answer, and with the demurrer kept as the standard attack on improper pleadings. [9]
One goal of these rules was to relax the strict rules of code pleading. [2] The focus of the cause of action was shifted to discovery (another goal of the FRCP). [2] Under the Federal Rules, a plaintiff's complaint merely needs to contain a short and plain statement of their cause of action. [2]
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Cal. Code — California Code (unofficial text? [3]) Cal. Code Reg. — California Code of Regulations (see: CCR below) CCR — California Code of Regulations (official text?) (source: Thomson/West) Cert. — Certiorari (appeal to a higher court) CIC — Codex Iuris Canonici, the Code of Canon Law (further specified as 1983 CIC or 1917 CIC)