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noun(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceedingtype of:
Definition that contains pleading
- answer the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
- charge (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- complaint (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- complaint (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
- plead 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
- verify attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)
- rebuttal (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
- replication (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer
- demurrer (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings
- demurrer (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings