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

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..

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

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..

Interpleader :: Interpleader (n.) One who interpleads.

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

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

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

Enterplead :: Enterplead (v. i.) Same as Interplead.

Issue :: Issue (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned..

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..

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..

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..

Surplusage :: Surplusage (n.) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected..

Countor :: Countor (v. t.) An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause..

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

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

Moot :: Moot (v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.

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..

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