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Delegation :: Delegation (n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates..

Legation :: Legation (n.) The place of business or official residence of a diplomatic minister at a foreign court or seat of government.

Mission :: Mission (n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.

Misallegation :: Misallegation (n.) A erroneous statement or allegation.

Allegation :: Allegation (n.) That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment.

Adlegation :: Adlegation (n.) A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.

Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why

Delegation :: Delegation (n.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him..

Count :: Count (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.

Ablegation :: Ablegation (n.) The act of sending abroad.

Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient..

Allegeance :: Allegeance (n.) Allegation.

Legation :: Legation (n.) A legate, or envoy, and the persons associated with him in his mission; an embassy; or, in stricter usage, a diplomatic minister and his suite; a deputation..

Relegation :: Relegation (n.) The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile..

Imparlance :: Imparlance (n.) Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, or answer to the allegations of the opposite party..

Deputation :: Deputation (n.) The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce..

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..

Profert :: Profert (n.) The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court..

Legation :: Legation (n.) A district under the jurisdiction of a legate.

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