impleadment

English

Etymology

implead +‎ -ment

Noun

impleadment (countable and uncountable, plural impleadments)

1. The act of impleading, or the state of being impleaded.
   • 1906, The Central Law Journal, volume 62, page 14:

     Of course, a state cannot authorize the impleadment of a corporation on substituted service, except possibly, as to property having a situs in such state, but service on the president of a corporation as he is passing through a state or service on an agent duly appointed to accept service of process is not substituted service.

   • 1987, Shriniwas Gupta, The Limitation Act, page 184:

     In the absence of any order that the impleadment of newly added or substituted party shall take effect from the date of institution of a suit, the period of limitation so far as the newly added or substituted shall run from the date of their impleadment in the suit.