Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Improper joinder of parties or actions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, a joining in one suit or action of causes or of parties that ought not to be so joined.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Law) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure in criminal or civil court.

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Examples

  • The court – correctly, in my view – reads this to mean that there are two kinds of inventorship “errors” that the Commissioner may correct: misjoinder, i.e., naming a person incorrectly as the inventor, and b nonjoinder i.e., failing to name a person as an inventor.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lowly Comma, Revisited 2009

  • Here, there are two reasonable meanings, misjoinder errors can never be corrected when caused by deception,or misjoinder errors caused by deception can be corrected before the patent issues, but notafter.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lowly Comma, Revisited 2009

  • So the two provisions taken together: after a patent issues, a misjoinder error that arose through “deceptive intention” can be corrected (256); before the patent issues, it cannot (116).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lowly Comma, Revisited 2009

  • The court – again, correctly in my view – reads this as forbidding correction whenever an error of either kind misjoinder or nonjoinder arose with deceptive intention.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lowly Comma, Revisited 2009

  • Among the objections which may be raised by such a motion are defects in charges and specifications which do not amount to a failure of the charge to allege an offense (69b), a substantial defect in the conduct of the pretrial investigation (see 34, 69c, Art. 32), prejudicial joinder in a joint trial (69d), and misjoinder in a common trial (33l, 69d).

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214 1951

  • These misjoinder rebukes are starting to take on a distinctly boilerplate aspect read the rest of them here at the

    Ars Technica Matthew Lasar 2010

  • Bailey ruled-this error is also known as "misjoinder."

    Ars Technica Matthew Lasar 2010

  • These misjoinder rebukes are starting to take on a distinctly boilerplate aspect read the rest of them here at the

    Ars Technica Matthew Lasar 2010

  • Rosemary M. Collyer of the US District Court for the District of Columbia gave the attorneys until June 21 to explain why more than 4,500 defendants shouldn't be dismissed "for misjoinder," a legal term used to describe the improper joining of defendants in a single lawsuit.

    The Register 2010

  • Bailey ruled-this error is also known as "misjoinder."

    Ars Technica Matthew Lasar 2010

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