English-French translations for counterclaim

• demande reconventionnelle
  Néanmoins, l’on m’a fait remarquer ce week-end que, en réalité, M. Bossi était le plaignant dans ce procès et c’est l’autre partie qui avait intenté le procès en tant que demande reconventionnelle. It was, however, pointed out to me over the weekend that in fact Mr Bossi was the plaintiff in this action and the action was introduced by the other party as a counterclaim.
• reconvention

Definition of counterclaim

• a suit filed by a defendant against a plaintiff secondary to the original complaint

Related words

• counterculture
• counterclockwise
• countercurrent
• counterchange
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• countercathexis
• countercyclical
• countercyclicality
• countercharge