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Definition of Pleaded

1. plead [v] - See also: plead

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleaded

Literary usage of Pleaded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"They also pleaded a set-off, claiming that a large sum was due to their testator from the plaintiffs on several accounts, and especially for the occupation ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"He was tried for the murder of the one billed, and acquitted; upon the trial for assaulting the other, he pleaded former acquittal. ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"338, be pleaded generally in bar of the action. And the case of Sullivan v. Montague, Dougl. 106, was cited, where it was holden that matter of defence ..."

4. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
""Don't doubt ray courage, Walter," she pleaded, " it's my weakness that cries, not me. The house-work shall conquer it, if 1 can't. ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Thus men who were accustomed only to Latin in public worship went on using it, even in a country where the same reasons which pleaded for the use of Latin ..."

6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"He was subsequently captured by a troop of royalists, and owed his life to the intercession of Sir John Denham, who pleaded that 'so long as Wither lived he ..."

7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"They also pleaded a set-off, claiming that a large sum was due to their testator from the plaintiffs on several accounts, and especially for the occupation ..."

8. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"He was tried for the murder of the one billed, and acquitted; upon the trial for assaulting the other, he pleaded former acquittal. ..."

9. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"338, be pleaded generally in bar of the action. And the case of Sullivan v. Montague, Dougl. 106, was cited, where it was holden that matter of defence ..."

10. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
""Don't doubt ray courage, Walter," she pleaded, " it's my weakness that cries, not me. The house-work shall conquer it, if 1 can't. ..."

11. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Thus men who were accustomed only to Latin in public worship went on using it, even in a country where the same reasons which pleaded for the use of Latin ..."

12. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"He was subsequently captured by a troop of royalists, and owed his life to the intercession of Sir John Denham, who pleaded that 'so long as Wither lived he ..."

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