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Pleading   /plˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Pleading

noun
1.
(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding.
adjective
1.
Begging.  Synonyms: beseeching, imploring.


Plead

verb
(past & past part. pled or pleaded; pres. part. pleading)
1.
Appeal or request earnestly.
2.
Offer as an excuse or plea.
3.
Enter a plea, as in courts of law.
4.
Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts.



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affirmative pleading
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defective pleading
special pleading
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"Pleading" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Judge began, but with a pleading gesture the old man cut him off. "Please don't say nothin' mo' ...
— The Starbucks • Opie Percival Read
... to a miners' wagon-train and offered ten dollars for a sack of oats. The boss teamster said he would not sell oats for a cent apiece if he had them, and so sent me back down the valley sore at heart, for I knew Van's eyes, those great soft brown eyes, would be pleading the moment I came in sight; and I knew more,—that somewhere the colonel had "made a raise," that he had one sack, for Preuss had seen it, and Chunka Witko had had a peck of oats the night before and another that very morning. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
... liveth, it will one day buy me punishment of the wrong-doers? And when, speaking of his practise with arms, the young man said it was for a nameless purpose, I named the purpose even as he spoke—vengeance! and that, Esther, that it was—the third thought which held me still and hard while his pleading lasted, and made me laugh when he ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... life and existence about me. The children playing in the sun and gathering strength and experience for the business of life, the park-keeper gossiping with a nursemaid, the nursing mother, the young couple intent upon each other as they passed me, the trees by the wayside spreading new pleading leaves to the sunlight, the stir in their branches—I had been part of it all, but I had nearly ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... whose holy stream In earnest pleading flows! Devotion dwells upon the theme, And warm and ...
— Hymns for Christian Devotion - Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination • J.G. Adams


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