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Oral Pleading

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Oral pleading, pleadings by word of mouth in presence of the judges. This was the original mode of pleading; it was, however, except in criminal cases, superseded by written pleadings in the reign of Edward III. see Odgers on Pleading.

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