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

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

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

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

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

Intercessor :: Intercessor (n.) One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. (a) One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. (b) One who pleads in behalf of another..

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..

Barrister :: Barrister (n.) Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney..

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..

Litigate :: Litigate (v. t.) To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause..

Issuably :: Issuably (adv.) In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably..

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

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

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty..

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..

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..

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..

Solicit :: Solicit (v. t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor..

Pleading :: Pleading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plea.

Draughtsman :: Draughtsman (n.) One who draws pleadings or other writings.

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