Dilatory Pleas - Law Dictionary Search Results
Dilatory pleas
Matched in: Term Dilatory pleas
dilatory plea
Matched in: Term dilatory plea
Plea
causes, and pleas of the Crown, relating to criminal prosecutions. At Common Law pleas were divided into: (1) Dilatory; which were subdivided into: (a) To the jurisdiction of the Court. (b) In suspension of the action, (c)
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Respondeat ouster
iv. 405. (let him make further answer) -- A judgment or order that a party who made a dilatory plea that has been denied must now plead on merits, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1313. Means … 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
Bar, plea in
defeating an action at Common Law. A plea in bar was therefore distinguished from all pleas of the dilatory class, as impugning the right of action altogether, instead of merely tending to divert the proceedings to another
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