[COUNTER- 3.] A claim set up against another; a claim set up by the defendant in a suit.
1876. County Court Rules Order xxxvi. r. 15 a., Where a counter-claimant fails to establish his counterclaim, he may be ordered to pay … costs.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, Digest 491. A debtor sued by him was entitled to deduction of all counter claims of whatever sort.
