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Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology..

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..

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

Interpleader :: Interpleader (n.) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him..

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

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

Pleader :: Pleader (n.) One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate.

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

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..

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..

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or adduce in proof, support, or vendication; to offer in excuse; as, the law of nations may be pleaded in favor of the rights of ambassadors..

Appear :: Appear (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried..

Advocation :: Advocation (n.) The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.

Sue :: Sue (v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

Impleader :: Impleader (n.) One who prosecutes or sues another.

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..

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

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

Unpleaded :: Unpleaded (a.) Not supported by pleas; undefended; as, an unpleaded suit..

Interpleader :: Interpleader (n.) One who interpleads.

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