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Definition of Pleadings

Pleadings
Pleadings Plead"ings, n. pl. (Law) The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. --Blackstone.
Pleading
Pleading Plead"ing, n. The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.

Meaning of Pleadings from wikipedia

- response to another party's complaint(s) in a civil action. The parties' pleadings in a case define the issues to be adjudicated in the action. The Civil...
- conference. Amendments to the deadlines for filing pleadings under FRCP 7&15, if any. Deadline for amending pleadings. Normally it is at least 30 days before the...
- action and the trial court erred in granting judgment to Marvin on the pleadings. The case went to trial. On April 18, 1979, Judge Arthur K. Marshall ordered...
- Briginshaw v Briginshaw (Briginshaw) is a decision of the High Court of Australia which considered how the requisite standard of proof should operate in...
- legal foundation for the entirety of a case. While complaints and other pleadings may ordinarily be amended by a motion with the court, the complaint sets...
- common law jurisdictions. These include: an element required in legal pleadings to demonstrate a cause of action; the determinations of the finder of...
- Drummond, purchased books including Blackstone's Commentaries and Chitty's Pleadings, and read law on his own. He later said of his legal education that "I...
- community[citation needed] uno flatu in one breath Used in criticism of inconsistent pleadings, i.e. "one cannot argue uno flatu both that the company does not exist...
- between pleadings and discovery as distinct phases of procedural law. Discovery devices could now be invoked independently of the pleadings. The New...
- Their tasks include arguing cases in courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching the law and giving legal opinions. Barristers are distinguished...