multiplepoinding

noun

Etymology

From multiple + poinding.

Definitions

  1. A legal action taken when there are several claimants to the same fund or property.

    • Mr. Wildgoose, Mr. Peebles's eighth agent, recommended a Multiplepoinding to bring all parties concerned into the field.
    • The multiplepoinding makes the fund litigious, to the effect of preventing the common debtor, to whom the fund originally belonged, from granting any voluntary conveyances of it while the action is in dependence.

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