SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown wasted no time Tuesday in signing a contentious California bill to impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country following an outbreak of measles at Disneyland late last year.
rebuttal - the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument. refutation, defence, defense - the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive; in defense he said the other man started it.
Related Terms: Affidavit. A positive statement of facts as opposed to an argumentative or inferential one.. Any party who files, or defends a claim in a court of law must set out the facts which support the claim or the defence. Lawyers often refer to these as allegations of fact, assertions of truth or, more technically, pleadings or averments. Mozley and Whiteley's Law Dictionary : It is traditional for the courts to demand averments which are succinct, written simply and to the point, and not in literary, flowery or poetic style.