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Dilatory

Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once given the procrastination delaying procrastinating loitering as a dilatory servant

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dilatory plea

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Dilatory pleas

Dilatory pleas, a class of defence founded on some matter of fact not connected with the merits of the case, but such as might exist without impeaching the right of action itself. They were either pleas...

Prolixious

Dilatory tedious superfluous

Cunctative

Slow tardy dilatory causing delay

Indilatory

Not dilatory

Respondeat ouster

Respondeat ouster (let him answer over). If a demurrer is joined in a plea to the jurisdiction, person, or writ, etc., and it be judged that the defendant put in a more substantial plea, interlocutory judgment...

Plea

Plea [fr. plee, Fr.]. this was the name of a defendant's answer of fact to a plaintiff's declaration; anciently a suit or action. Pleas were divided into common pleas, relating to civil causes, and pleas of...

Procrastination

The act or habit of procrastinating or putting off to a future time delay dilatoriness

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