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Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court..

Exculpate :: Exculpate (v. t.) To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.

Averment :: Averment (v. t.) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

Answer :: Answer (n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill..

Venue :: Venue (n.) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid..

Alibi :: Alibi (n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi..

Allegation :: Allegation (n.) That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment.

Absque Hoc :: Absque hoc () The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated..

Trover :: Trover (n.) An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion..

Convict :: Convict (n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

Concubinage :: Concubinage (n.) A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine..

Exculpation :: Exculpation (n.) The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

Norium :: Norium (n.) A supposed metal alleged to have been discovered in zircon.

Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why

Alleged :: Alleged (imp. & p. p.) of Alleg.

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

Rosicrucian :: Rosicrucian (n.) One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years..

Pretension :: Pretension (n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship..

Highbinder :: Highbinder (n.) A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese..

Allegeable :: Allegeable (a.) Capable of being alleged or affirmed.

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