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Plead
Plead Plead, v. t.
1. To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments
or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having
uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a
cause before a court or jury.
Every man should plead his own matter. --Sir T.
More.
Note: In this sense, argue is more generally used by lawyers.
2. To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for
repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as,
to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead
not guilty. --Kent.
3. 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. --Spenser.
I will neither plead my age nor sickness, in excuse
of faults. --Dryden.
Meaning of Pleaded from wikipedia
- A
special pleader was a
historical legal occupation. The practitioner, or "special
pleader" in
English law
specialised in
drafting "pleadings", in modern...
- offense, the
court must
proceed in the same
manner as if the
defendant had
pleaded guilty. A plea of no
contest to a
felony offense requires the court's consent...
- Look up plea,
plead,
pleaded, pled, guilty, or not
guilty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In law, a plea is a defendant's
response to a
criminal charge...
-
fitness to
plead is the
capacity of a
defendant in
criminal proceedings to
comprehend the
course of
those proceedings. The
concept of
fitness to
plead also...
- (i.e., deny all or some of the
facts pleaded) or
confess and
avoid it (i.e.,
admit the
facts pleaded but
plead new ones that
would dispel their effect)...
-
refuse to
answer questions or
otherwise give
testimony against himself". To "
plead the Fifth" is to
refuse to
answer any
question because "the implications...
- of the
federal question jurisdiction statute is now
known as the well-
pleaded complaint rule. The Mottleys,
Erasmus and Annie, were a
husband and wife...
- child.
Daniel Defoe's Moll
Flanders includes a
character who
successfully pleaded her
belly despite being "no more with
child than the
judge that
tried [her]"...
-
authorities that she and Eddy
planned and
carried out Neese's murder.
Shoaf pleaded guilty to second-degree
murder on May 1, 2013, and was
sentenced to 30...
- to her. On
December 18, 2023,
Franke pleaded guilty to four
counts of
aggravated child abuse. She
later pleaded not
guilty to two
other counts. The factual...
