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Pleading (root: plead)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Pleading has 1 sense
- pleading(n = noun.communication) Array - (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding; Array has parts: bill of particulars
has particulars: affirmative pleading, alternative pleading, pleading in the alternative, answer, charge, complaint, complaint, defective pleading, demurrer, rebuttal, rebutter, replication, rejoinder, special pleading, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoinder
is a kind of statement
Derived forms verb plead3, verb plead4
Adjective Pleading has 1 sense
- pleading(a = adj.all) beseeching, imploring - begging; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
Pleading, n.
The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Pleading, n. (usu. in pl.) a formal statement of the cause of an action or defence.
THESAURUS
Pleading
adjuratory, answer, appealing, argument, argumentum, bar, begging, beseeching, case, cons, consideration, counsel, counterstatement, defense, demurrer, denial, elenchus, entreating, exception, ignoratio elenchi, imploring, legal profession, objection, plaidoyer, plea, pleadings, precative, precatory, pros, pros and cons, reason, rebuttal, refutation, reply, representation, response, riposte, special demurrer, special pleading, statement of defense, talking point
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