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

Impleading :: Impleading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Implea.

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

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

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

Issue :: Issue (v. i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue..

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..

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..

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

Innuendo :: Innuendo (n.) An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief..

Placitum :: Placitum (n.) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.

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..

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

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

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..

Entreative :: Entreative (a.) Used in entreaty; pleading.

Intercedent :: Intercedent (a.) Passing between; mediating; pleading.

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..

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

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators..

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