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pleadings

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plead·ing  (pldng)
n.
1. A plea; an entreaty.
2. Law Advocacy of causes in court.
3. Law
a. A formal statement, generally written, propounding the cause of action or the defense in a case.
b. pleadings The consecutive statements, allegations, and counterallegations made by plaintiff and defendant, or prosecutor and accused, in a legal proceeding.

pleadings [ˈpliːdɪŋz]
pl n
(Law) Law (formerly) the formal written statements presented alternately by the claimant and defendant in a lawsuit setting out the respective matters relied upon Official name statements of case


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A gentle smile will greet all your pleadings that you be allowed to come in and save the firm.
At court, and in the castles of the great nobles, where the pomp and state of a court was emulated, Norman-French was the only language employed; in courts of law, the pleadings and judgments were delivered in the same tongue.
Though the common-law courts of this State ascertain disputed facts by a jury, yet they unquestionably have jurisdiction of both fact and law; and accordingly when the former is agreed in the pleadings, they have no recourse to a jury, but proceed at once to judgment.
 
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