Plea - Law Dictionary Search Results
Address
Address, a petition, also a place of business or residence. Means to speak, write or otherwise communicate directly to, to deliver
Petition
A prayer a supplication an imploration an entreaty especially a request of a solemn or formal kind a prayer to the Supreme Being or to a person of superior
Nontenure
A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land as affirmed
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VerbarNon est factum
The plea of the general issue in an action of debt on bond
VerbarNon assumpsit
The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit
Contrapositio
Contrapositio, a plea or answer.
Diversity
Diversity, a plea by the prisoner in bar of execution, alleging that he is not the same who was attainted, upon
Postulation
Postulation, a petition.
Pleadings
The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant or written statements of the parties in support of their claims
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
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