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The authorization herein granted includes that necessary for taking cognizance of any counterclaim, reciprocal claim or other pertinent plea which the Commonwealth may enter in its own defense, and it also includes the proceedings of intervention and of third-party litigants, for or against the Commonwealth, whether on petition of the latter or of other litigant.\nHistory —June 29, 1955, No. 104, p. 550, § 3.