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Depart :: Depart (v. i.) To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading..

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

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..

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

Verify :: Verify (v. t.) To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like..

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

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

Placitory :: Placitory (a.) Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law..

Recompensation :: Recompensation (n.) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.

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..

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

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..

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

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..

Interplead :: Interplead (v. i.) To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader..

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

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

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

Solicit :: Solicit (v. t.) To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.

Persuade :: Persuade (v. i.) To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.

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