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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 Pleads from wikipedia
- A
special pleader was a
historical legal occupation. The practitioner, or "special
pleader" in
English law
specialised in
drafting "pleadings", in modern...
-
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...
- plea and a nolo
contendere plea is that, in an
Alford plea, the
defendant pleads guilty (in a
formal sense) yet in a nolo
contendere plea, the defendant...
- plea (in the
United States).
Under common law systems, a
defendant who
pleads guilty will be
convicted if the
court accepts the plea. The
court will then...
- In
English law, a beau
pleader is a writ,
whereby it is
provided that no fine
shall be
taken of
anyone in any
court for fair pleading, i.e. for not pleading...
- 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]"...
-
refuse to
answer questions or
otherwise give
testimony against himself". To "
plead the Fifth" is to
refuse to
answer any
question because "the implications...
- Fadulu, Lola (December 18, 2023). "Former
YouTube Parenting Channel Host
Pleads Guilty to
Child Abuse". The New York Times. ISSNÂ 0362-4331. OCLCÂ 990059982...
-
pleading by
requiring parties to
plead "ultimate facts." This
means that to
plead a
cause of action, the
pleader has to
plead each
element and also allege...
- A
petitioner is a
person who
pleads with
governmental institution for a
legal remedy or a
redress of grievances,
through use of a petition. The petitioner...
