Definition of plead

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Plead (v. t.) To contend; to struggle.

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Impleadable :: Impleadable (a.) Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous..
Emplead :: Emplead (v. t.) To accuse; to indict. See Implead.
Solicit :: Solicit (v. t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor..
Surplusage :: Surplusage (n.) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected..
Mispleading :: Mispleading (n.) An error in pleading.
Impleading :: Impleading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Implea.
Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology..
Brief :: Brief (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings..
Enterplead :: Enterplead (v. i.) Same as Interplead.
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..
Misplead :: Misplead (v. i.) To err in pleading.
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..
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..
Pleader :: Pleader (n.) One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate.
Impleaded :: Impleaded (imp. & p. p.) of Implea.
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea..
Intercedent :: Intercedent (a.) Passing between; mediating; pleading.
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..
Persuade :: Persuade (v. i.) To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.
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