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Pleading   /plˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Pleading

noun
1.
(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding.
adjective
1.
Begging.  Synonyms: beseeching, imploring.


Plead

verb
(past & past part. pled or pleaded; pres. part. pleading)
1.
Appeal or request earnestly.
2.
Offer as an excuse or plea.
3.
Enter a plea, as in courts of law.
4.
Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts.



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pleading in the alternative
affirmative pleading
alternative pleading
defective pleading
special pleading
pleader


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"Pleading" Quotes from Famous Books



... "a favorite with the court" out this way; while the regard which the lawyers have cherished for it has been "distant and respectful." It has been laid on the shelf about as effectually as bleeding in the practice of medicine. The science of special pleading, as it is known in these days— and that in some of the older states— exists in a mitigated form from what it did in the days of Coke and Hale. The opportunities to amend, and the various barriers against admitting a multiplicity of pleas, have ...
— Minnesota and Dacotah • C.C. Andrews
... some individual member of the Army of Wretches turns and becomes the Devil of modern civilisation. Modern civilisation has put out the spiritual Devil and produced the Demon of Dynamite. Let me raise a voice, in pleading for more humane treatment of the poor—the only way, believe me, by which society can narrow down and confine the operations of this new Devil. A human being is not a dog, yet is treated ...
— The Life of the Fields • Richard Jefferies
... farming, and at the same time set so much store by the book learning that is given in the common arithmetic, the old-fashioned reader, and the dry grammar of the typical school? Of course anyone pleading for this sort of study in the rural schools must make it clear that the ordinary accomplishments of reading, writing, and ciphering are not to be neglected. As a matter of fact, pupils under this method can be just as well trained in these branches as under the old plan. The point to ...
— Chapters in Rural Progress • Kenyon L. Butterfield
... must have touched in the door-way, Messenger, Hokosa the wizard," answered the king, and he told him of what had passed between them. "I said," he added, "that he was a man, and so he is; yet I hold that I have done wrong to listen to your pleading and to spare him, for I am certain that he will bring bloodshed upon me and trouble on the Faith. Think now, Messenger, how full must be that man's heart of secret rage and hatred, he who was so great and is now so little! Will he not certainly strive to grow ...
— The Wizard • H. Rider Haggard
... to Jerusalem, but Paul answered, "What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but to die in Jerusalem for the cause of the Lord Jesus." So when he could not be kept from going, we stopped pleading and said: "The Lord's will ...
— The Children's Bible • Henry A. Sherman


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