- (i.e., deny all or some of the
facts pleaded) or
confess and
avoid it (i.e.,
admit the
facts pleaded but
plead new ones that
would dispel their effect)...
-
fitness to
plead is the
capacity of a
defendant in
criminal proceedings to
comprehend the
course of
those proceedings. The
concept of
fitness to
plead also...
- A
special pleader was a
historical legal occupation. The practitioner, or "special
pleader" in
English law
specialised in
drafting "pleadings", in modern...
-
state law
determines whether, and
under what cir****stances, a
defendant may
plead no
contest in
state criminal cases. In
federal court, the
Federal Rules...
- Look up plea,
plead,
pleaded, pled, guilty, or not
guilty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In law, a plea is a defendant's
response to a
criminal charge...
- child.
Daniel Defoe's Moll
Flanders includes a
character who
successfully pleaded her
belly despite being "no more with
child than the
judge that
tried [her]"...
-
refuse to
answer questions or
otherwise give
testimony against himself". To "
plead the Fifth" is to
refuse to
answer any
question because "the implications...
-
Plead the
Fifth is the
fifth studio album by
American alternative metal band Taproot.
Originally planned for an
April 13, 2010 release, it was dela****...
-
Plead the Widow's
Cause is an
American indie heavy metal and post
hardcore band from
Southern New Jersey. The band was
formed in 2022.
Their name is derived...
- at the Old Bailey, he at
first refused to
plead and was
therefore sentenced to be
pressed until he
pleaded. This was
called Peine forte et dure. He was...
