counterpleas

Peloponnesian conflict has for a prominent feature the pleas and counterpleas of contending parties, together with a few independent orations, so this Roman History is filled with public utterances of famous men, either singly or in pairs.

Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form Cassius Dio

On the conclusion of the written explanations or after the expiration of a certain interval, during which no further counterpleas are forthcoming, the decision is given and published by exhibition in the Secretariate.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

The defendant lodges a written answer within a certain interval, after which further pleas and counterpleas may continue.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

But whether the affection which she entertained for him best deserved the name of friendship or a still tenderer one, seems after all a question of too subtile and obscure a nature for sober discussion; though in a French "_cour d'amour_" it might have furnished pleas and counterpleas of exquisite ingenuity, prodigious sentimental interest, and length interminable.

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

It also considered two counterpleas, from the Milan judge and the prosecution in the case, arguing that state secrecy norms were not violated and the abduction itself was a "subversive" act that breached the Constitution.

Gates of Vienna 2009