reconvention

A counterclaim is often called a claim in reconvention.

Wells claimed in reconvention for an order rescinding the contract on the ground of the alleged misrepresentations.

The magistrate dismissed SA Alumenite's exception to the claim in reconvention.

Four Scottish Parliamentary elections have been held since the reconvention of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

This reconvention gave them the impetus to knuckle down and record another album, and that album was 2000's Confederacy of Ruined Lives.

If a defendant filed a claim in reconvention (called a counterclaim), the plaintiff will be obliged to file a plea to such a counterclaim, which is similar to the defendant's plea to the claim in convention (the plaintiff's claim).