replica

replica [cf. CL replicare], reply, response, rejoinder (to an argument or thesis). b (Sc. leg.) reply, replication (to previous exceptio). nec defendit objectionibus et ~is respondendo capitul’ xv supra adductis Ockham Dial. 835 tit..  b 1517 quandam ~am elidentem per vos conceptam et proprio ore dictatam Form. S. Andr. I 360; dictam ~am elidentem exceptioni mee omnino contradictoriam Ib..