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Brief :: Brief (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings..

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

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..

Pleadingly :: Pleadingly (adv.) In a pleading manner.

Litigate :: Litigate (v. t.) To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause..

Inducement :: Inducement (n.) Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.

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

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

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

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

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 (n.) The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments..

Depart :: Depart (v. i.) To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading..

Imparl :: Imparl (v. i.) To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment.

Pleadings :: Pleadings (n. pl.) The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point..

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..

Advocacy :: Advocacy (n.) The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, against the peace, etc..

Issue :: Issue (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned..

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

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