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Definition of plead

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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..

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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..

Sue :: Sue (v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..

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

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

Implead :: Implead (v. t.) To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach..

Uplead :: Uplead (v. t.) To lead upward.

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or adduce in proof, support, or vendication; to offer in excuse; as, the law of nations may be pleaded in favor of the rights of ambassadors..

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

Repleader :: Repleader (n.) A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again..

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

Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology..

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

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..

Entreative :: Entreative (a.) Used in entreaty; pleading.

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

Advocate :: Advocate (n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly..

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

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..

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