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Protestation :: Protestation (n.) Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial..

Pleading :: Pleading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plea.

Advocate :: Advocate (n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly..

Pleader :: Pleader (n.) One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader..

Impleadable :: Impleadable (a.) Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous..

Verify :: Verify (v. t.) To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like..

Misplead :: Misplead (v. i.) To err in pleading.

Imparlance :: Imparlance (n.) Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, or answer to the allegations of the opposite party..

Enterplead :: Enterplead (v. i.) Same as Interplead.

Oratrix :: Oratrix (n.) A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows..

Excuser :: Excuser (n.) One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

Draughtsman :: Draughtsman (n.) One who draws pleadings or other writings.

Plete :: Plete (v. t. & i.) To plead.

Countreplete :: Countreplete (v. t.) To counterplead.

Surplusage :: Surplusage (n.) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected..

Recital :: Recital (n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation..

Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..

Repleader :: Repleader (n.) A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again..

Impleading :: Impleading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Implea.

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