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filing a complaint or the defendant answering the complaint. In common law, a demurrer was the pleading through which a defendant challenged the legal sufficiency

deemed adequate as long as the defendant's rights are properly disclosed such that any waiver of those rights by the defendant is knowing, voluntary, and

contest), no case to answer (in the United Kingdom), or an Alford plea (in the United States). Under common law systems, a defendant who pleads guilty will

the defendant. It may have been preceded by an optional "pre-answer" motion to dismiss or demurrer; if such a motion is unsuccessful, the defendant must

parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law. The archaic term "suit in law" is found in only

to the sheriff of a particular county to bring the defendant, having failed to appear, to answer a civil action against him. Under the American legal

where a defendant answers some police questions, but not others, an inference may sometimes be drawn about the questions they refused to answer. (See Coldrey

Plaintiffs may amend once before an answer is filed, a defendant can amend once within 21 days of serving an answer. [clarification needed] If there is

the defendant to answer (sometimes shortened to no case to answer) is a term in the criminal law of some Commonwealth states, whereby a defendant seeks

violation of a defendant's right to be present in court proceedings in a criminal trial.[citation needed] Conviction in a trial in which a defendant is not present