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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..

Advocate :: Advocate (n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

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

Count :: Count (v. i.) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

Mispleading :: Mispleading (n.) An error in pleading.

Recital :: Recital (n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Impleaded :: Impleaded (imp. & p. p.) of Implea.

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, against the peace, etc..

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