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Pleader :: Pleader (n.) One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate.

Pleading :: Pleading (n.) The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments..

Verify :: Verify (v. t.) To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like..

Advocation :: Advocation (n.) The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.

Impleaded :: Impleaded (imp. & p. p.) of Implea.

Countreplete :: Countreplete (v. t.) To counterplead.

Innuendo :: Innuendo (n.) An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief..

Excuser :: Excuser (n.) One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

Counterplead :: Counterplead (v. t.) To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

Interpleader :: Interpleader (n.) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him..

Solicit :: Solicit (v. t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor..

Inducement :: Inducement (n.) Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.

Pleadings :: Pleadings (n. pl.) The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point..

Patron :: Patron (n.) An advocate or pleader.

Pleadingly :: Pleadingly (adv.) In a pleading manner.

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..

Persuade :: Persuade (v. i.) To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.

Emplead :: Emplead (v. t.) To accuse; to indict. See Implead.

Misplead :: Misplead (v. i.) To err in pleading.

Pleaded :: Pleaded (imp. & p. p.) of Plea.

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