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

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

Recompensation :: Recompensation (n.) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.

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

Impleadable :: Impleadable (a.) Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous..

Protestation :: Protestation (n.) Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows..

Issue :: Issue (v. i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue..

Answer :: Answer (n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill..

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury..

Mispleading :: Mispleading (n.) An error in pleading.

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

Appear :: Appear (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried..

Oratrix :: Oratrix (n.) A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading..

Intercedent :: Intercedent (a.) Passing between; mediating; pleading.

Similiter :: Similiter (n.) The technical name of the form by which either party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his opponent; -- called sometimes a joinder in issue..

Recital :: Recital (n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation..

Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, against the peace, etc..

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father..

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators..

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