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Definition of Pleading
1. Noun. (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding.
Specialized synonyms: Affirmative Pleading, Alternative Pleading, Pleading In The Alternative, Answer, Charge, Complaint, Complaint, Defective Pleading, Demurrer, Rebuttal, Rebutter, Replication, Rejoinder, Special Pleading, Surrebuttal, Surrebutter, Surrejoinder
Generic synonyms: Statement
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Plead, Plead
2. Adjective. Begging.
Similar to: Adjuratory, Importunate, Mendicant, Petitionary, Precative, Precatory, Suppliant, Supplicant, Supplicatory
Antonyms: Imperative
Definition of Pleading
1. n. The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.
Definition of Pleading
1. Noun. (legal) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of plead) ¹
3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to that which pleads. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pleading
1. an allegation in a legal action [n -S]
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Literary usage of Pleading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue by San Francisco Law Library, Frank P. Deering (1888)
"Equity pleading under the NY code. 2 vols. 2d ed. 1860. ... Puterbaugh, SD Common
law pleading and practice in Ii1. 1867. Same. 5th ed. 1880. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, William Draper Lewis (1902)
"OF pleading. *293] *pleadingS are the mutual altercations between the plaintiff
and defendant;( i) which at present are set down and delivered into the ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"C. 5S9, 55 SE 366, 8 LRA [NS] 574), und this is equally true Of a demurrer to an
answer, or other pleading. The demurrer. In this Instance, calls to Its aid ..."
4. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1898)
"But the background of the law of pleading and trial still is this, ... The supposed
rule that in Dower there is no 'defence' (Stephen, pleading, ..."
5. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1884)
"OF pleading. pleadingS are the mutual altercations between the plaintiff and
defendant; ... pleading, therefore, consists merely in alleging matter of fact, ..."
6. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"But the background of the law of pleading and trial still is this, that the
defendant must take his stand upon a downright No, whereupon there will be a ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"pleading, 1. Practice, 3. Principal and Agent, 1. ACCUMULATION. ... pleading, 1.
Representative. Trust, 4. ADVANCEMENT. See Satisfaction, 1. ..."
8. Catalogue by San Francisco Law Library, Frank P. Deering (1888)
"Equity pleading under the NY code. 2 vols. 2d ed. 1860. ... Puterbaugh, SD Common
law pleading and practice in Ii1. 1867. Same. 5th ed. 1880. ..."
9. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, William Draper Lewis (1902)
"OF pleading. *293] *pleadingS are the mutual altercations between the plaintiff
and defendant;( i) which at present are set down and delivered into the ..."
10. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"C. 5S9, 55 SE 366, 8 LRA [NS] 574), und this is equally true Of a demurrer to an
answer, or other pleading. The demurrer. In this Instance, calls to Its aid ..."
11. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1898)
"But the background of the law of pleading and trial still is this, ... The supposed
rule that in Dower there is no 'defence' (Stephen, pleading, ..."
12. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1884)
"OF pleading. pleadingS are the mutual altercations between the plaintiff and
defendant; ... pleading, therefore, consists merely in alleging matter of fact, ..."
13. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"But the background of the law of pleading and trial still is this, that the
defendant must take his stand upon a downright No, whereupon there will be a ..."
14. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"pleading, 1. Practice, 3. Principal and Agent, 1. ACCUMULATION. ... pleading, 1.
Representative. Trust, 4. ADVANCEMENT. See Satisfaction, 1. ..."
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