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

Innuendo :: Innuendo (n.) An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief..

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..

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..

Intercedent :: Intercedent (a.) Passing between; mediating; pleading.

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

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..

Entreative :: Entreative (a.) Used in entreaty; pleading.

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..

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

Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..

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..

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..

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

Jeofail :: "Jeofail (n.) An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight..

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

Issue :: Issue (v. i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue..

Redundancy :: Redundancy (n.) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

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

Placitory :: Placitory (a.) Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law..

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