reconventionn.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 397 As bi boond, and withoute eny reconuencioun or couenaunt of bond expressid or priueli vndirstonde forto ȝeue aȝen.

1456 MS Rec. Aberdeen V. i. 284 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Reconventio(u)n(e That sin the said Schir Robert folwit him in this curt he aucht til ansuer til his reconventioun in the sammyn curt.

1538 Extr. Aberd. Burgh Rec. (1844) 158 My lord prowest..humely menis, schawis, and, be the way of reconuentioune, complenis [etc.].

1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. 423 Hee vnderstood by sinne in that place, the sinne of adulterie, for otherwise..the reconuention had not beene so strong and forcible.

1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies ii. 303 In vie of those grounds, laid by the Repl. against humane significant Ceremonies, out of the second Commandement, the Rej. by way of Reconvention faineth two grounds to the contrary.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 83 An Appeal in a cause of Convention does not impeach and hinder the Execution of a Sentence in a Cause of Re-convention.

1760–5 R. Burn Eccl. Law (1797) II. 137 But in these cases of re-convention, the parties must proceed together in the contesting of suit.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 823 Where an action is brought in Scotland by a foreigner,..his adversary in the suit is entitled, by reconvention, to sue the foreigner on a counter-claim.

1884 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 9 582 A claim in reconvention is in substance nothing else than a cross action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff.

1903 J. W. Brodie-Innes Compar. Princ. Laws of Eng. & Scotl. 186 Adopting the theory and the language of Roman Law, the convention and the reconvention are considered to be correlative and may be tried together. This form of jurisdiction by consent is therefore called ‘Reconvention’.

1927 W. M. Gloag & R. C. Henderson Introd. Law Scotl. 19 Reconvention.—Where a party raises an action in the Court of Session he thereby submits himself to its jurisdiction in any counter action relating to the same dispute... In order that jurisdiction may be founded on reconvention the foreigner must have sought the Scotch Courts voluntarily.

1959 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 3 302 The absence of a Texas provision based on the thirteenth Spanish exception is remarkable in the light of..the adoption of the Spanish principle of reconvention.

1996 H. J. Erasmus in R. Zimmermann & D. Visser Southern Cross 147 The term ‘reconvention’ derives from Roman-Dutch practice... Procedure by way of counterclaim was introduced into English procedure by..the Judicature Act 1873.

2007 U. Magnus et al. Brussels I Regulation ii. 266 Compensation involving a claim which requires to be judicially determined is always a reconvention or counterclaim.

1641 Sir E. Dering in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 393 My humble motion therefore is this, I beseech you to declare, That upon this our Reconvention, your Order of the 8th. of September is out of date.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1664 (1955) III. 390 The heads of the Speech he made at the reconvention of the Parliament, which now began.

1884 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 27 Dec. 1/5 The house bill to prohibit the fencing of public lands will be reported back favorably to the Senate with amendments soon after the reconvention of Congress.

1889 Wellsboro (Pa.) Agitator 12 Feb. 2/2 The constitutional amendment for the abolishment of the poll tax..occupied the attention of the Senate from the time of its reconvention on Tuesday night until Wednesday afternoon, when it was finally passed.

1906 Times 25 July 9/6 The Constitutional Democrats..would..form a Cabinet, on condition that a new Parliament were convened on the basis of a universal suffrage law. They would further make acceptance dependent upon reconvention of the first Duma for the purpose of drafting such law.

1943 Terril (Iowa) Record 16 Sept. 6/3 Streaming back to Washington for the reconvention of congress, the nation's politicoes were heading straight for a showdown on the entire manpower question.

2007 Sunday Independent (S. Afr.) 30 Sept. 9 The president is required to submit the inquiry report to parliament within 14 days of its completion or, if parliament is in recession, within 14 days of its reconvention.