| pleading | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. pleading | (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding. |
| ~ bill of particulars | the particular events to be dealt with in a criminal trial; advises the defendant and the court of the facts the defendant will be required to meet. |
| ~ affirmative pleading | any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff. |
| ~ alternative pleading, pleading in the alternative | a pleading that alleges facts so separate that it is difficult to determine which facts the person intends to rely on. |
| ~ answer | the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims. |
| ~ charge, complaint | (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense.; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny" |
| ~ complaint | (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based. |
| ~ defective pleading | any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency. |
| ~ demurrer | (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings. |
| ~ rebuttal, rebutter | (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. |
| ~ replication | (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer. |
| ~ rejoinder | (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication. |
| ~ special pleading | (law) a pleading that alleges new facts in avoidance of the opposing allegations. |
| ~ surrebuttal, surrebutter | (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter. |
| ~ surrejoinder | (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder. |
| ~ statement | a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc.; "according to his statement he was in London on that day" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| adj. | 2. beseeching, imploring, pleading | begging. |
| ~ adjuratory | earnestly or solemnly entreating.; "in adjuratory terms" |
| ~ importunate | expressing earnest entreaty.; "an importunate job applicant" |
| ~ mendicant | practicing beggary.; "mendicant friars" |
| ~ petitionary | of the nature of or expressing a petition.; "the petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness" |
| ~ precative, precatory | expressing entreaty or supplication.; "precatory overtures" |
| ~ suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory | humbly entreating.; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness" |
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