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n. A plea; an entreaty.

n. Law Advocacy of causes in court.

n. Law A formal statement, generally written, propounding the cause of action or the defense in a case.

n. Law The consecutive statements, allegations, and counterallegations made by plaintiff and defendant, or prosecutor and accused, in a legal proceeding.

n. A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.

v. Present participle of plead.

adj. Of or pertaining to that which pleads.

n. The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.

n. The act of advocating any cause; specifically, the act or practice of advocating clients' causes in courts of law.

n. In law: The document (or in some inferior courts an oral statement) formally setting forth the cause of action or the defense of a party.

n. The formal allegation on the record of that which is to be relied on as the support of the party's case in evidence

n. The rules and usages of framing such documents, and of the sufficiency of their contents : the art of drawing pleadings

n. plural The written allegations made in alternate series by the plaintiff and the defendant of their respective grounds of action and defense, terminating in propositions distinctly affirmed on one side and denied on the other, called the issue. Heard. In a more limited sense, only those allegations or altercations which are subsequent to the count or declaration

n. The science of pleading, which, until the English Common-law Procedure Act, in 1852, constituted a distinct branch of the law, having the merit of developing the points in controversy with great precision. Its strictness and subtlety were frequently a subject of complaint, and one of the objects of the act was to relax and simplify its rules

n. In popular use, the specious but unsound or unfair argumentation of one whose aim is victory rather than truth.

n. (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding

adj. begging

"Judge Carol Amon in pleading guilty to mail fraud."

precatory    importunate    mendicant    petitionary    precative    supplicatory    adjuratory    supplicant    suppliant   

special pleading    code pleading    pleading over   

pleadingly   

allegation    plea    Bill    answer    complaint    duply    duplication    demurrer    reply    rebutter   

plead   

Reading    acceding    bleeding    breeding    ceding    conceding    exceeding    feeding    heeding    impeding   

plead    entreaty    exhortations    supplication    solicitations    protestation    lamentation    plea    remonstrance    admonition