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PRETERMITTED DEFENSE Definition & Legal Meaning

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One which was available to a party and of which he might have had the benefit if he had pleaded it in due season, but which cannot afterwards be heard as a basis for affirmative relief. Swennes v. Sprain. 120 Wis. 08,

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