Impleader

An addition of a third party to an Action by the defendant. Procedural device before trial in which one party joins a third party into a lawsuit because that third party is liable to an original defendant: for example, in a case where a driver rear-ended another car due to faulty brakes, and is sued by the Accident victim, the driver may decide to implead the repair shop where the brakes were worked on because the driver's Liability derives from the repair shop's Liability for their faulty repair of the breaks. The theory is that two cases may be decided together and justice may be done more efficiently than having two suits in a series.

n. a procedural device before trial in which a party brings a third party into the lawsuit because that third party is the one who owes money to an original defendant, which money will be available to pay the original plaintiff. The theory is that two cases may be decided together and justice may be done more efficiently than having two suits in a series.