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Redundancy :: Redundancy (n.) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

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

Prescriptive :: Prescriptive (a.) Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom..

Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..

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

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

Imparl :: Imparl (v. i.) To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment.

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

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

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

Advocacy :: Advocacy (n.) The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

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..

Jeofail :: "Jeofail (n.) An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

Impleading :: Impleading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Implea.

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