Definition of Pleading. Meaning of Pleading. Synonyms of Pleading

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Definition of Pleading

Pleading
Pleading Plead"ing, n. The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.

Meaning of Pleading from wikipedia

- In law as practiced in countries that follow the English models, a pleading is a formal written statement of one party's claims or defenses in response...
- Special pleading is an informal fallacy wherein one cites something as an exception to a general or universal principle, without justifying the special...
- Alternative pleading (or pleading in the alternative) is the legal term in the law of the United States for a form of pleading that permits a party in...
- An abatement in pleading, or plea in abatement, was a defence in common law to legal proceedings that did not contest the principle of the plaintiff's...
- Pleading Guilty (1993), is Scott Turow's third novel, and like the previous two it is set in fictional Kindle County. The story is a legal thriller about...
- Pleading the belly was a process in English common law which permitted a woman in the later stages of pregnancy to receive a reprieve of her death sentence...
- The Pleading in English Act 1362 (36 Edw. 3 Stat. 1. c. 15), often rendered Statute of Pleading, was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act complained...
- serve as a witness in a criminal case in which he or she is a defendant. "Pleading the Fifth" is a colloquial term often used to invoke the Self-Incrimination...
- Pleading the Blues is an album by Chicago blues harp player Junior Wells. The first collaboration of Junior Wells and his long-time friend Buddy Guy dated...
- Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice (usually called simply Archbold) is the leading practitioners' text for criminal lawyers in England and...