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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Plead :: 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..

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..

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..

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..

Replead :: Replead (v. t. & i.) To plead again.

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..

Moot :: Moot (v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.

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

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

Issuably :: Issuably (adv.) In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably..

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