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Definition of plead

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Plead (v. t.) To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father..

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

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

Intercessor :: Intercessor (n.) One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. (a) One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. (b) One who pleads in behalf of another..

Advocate :: Advocate (n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth..

Prescriptive :: Prescriptive (a.) Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom..

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

Plead :: Plead () of Plea.

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

Implead :: Implead (v. i.) To sue at law.

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

Interplead :: Interplead (v. i.) To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader..

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..

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To contend; to struggle.

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

Placitum :: Placitum (n.) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.

Counterplead :: Counterplead (v. t.) To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

Persuade :: Persuade (v. i.) To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.

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.

Unpleaded :: Unpleaded (a.) Not used as a plea; not urged; as, an unpleaded excuse..