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corespondent

n. (context legal English) One of two or more persons against whom a lawsuit is made; but especially a person charged with commiting adultery with the defendant in a divorce proceeding.

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corespondent

n. the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding [syn: co-respondent]

Usage examples of "corespondent".

Revenge, Hector went off mooning about his ex-wife Debbi, who during the divorce proceedings, on the advice of some drug-taking longhair crank attorney, had named the television set, a 19-inch French Provincial floor model, as corespondent, arguing that the Tube was a member of the household, enjoying its own space, fed out of the house budget with all the electricity it needed, addressed and indeed chatted with at length by other family members, certainly as able to steal affection as any cheap floozy Hector might have met on the job.

This was all I lacked-getting myself shot, or named corespondent in a divorce suit.

She had been tempted to name Redeye as corespondent when she and Roger split, but since the divorce was uncontested, she resisted.

Remember what happened to Annette just because she was named as corespondent in a very ugly divorce action.

Stanford Paglia, the Sports Aloft corespondent, with helpful tips by Pike Resnick.

There I am outside the hotel room waiting for the corespondent to reach a crescendo of amorous noises.

The wire services do not maintain corespondents here but are covered, when coverage is necessary, by our staffers.