Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Law) The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point.
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- noun Plural form of
pleading .
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Examples
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He ignored the pleadings from the Asian community.
Twilight Lexicon » Add M. Night Shyamalan to the Breaking Dawn Director Pile 2010
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Kate Kendall, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, in an interview noted, "The Attorney General is charged with defending the Constitution and, in his role, he is uniquely positioned to say what he said in his pleadings, which is that Prop 8 is so fundamentally counter to the most basic understanding of how the Constitution operates that it simply can't be upheld as a proper amendment."
Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2009
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Kate Kendall, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, in an interview noted, "The Attorney General is charged with defending the Constitution and, in his role, he is uniquely positioned to say what he said in his pleadings, which is that Prop 8 is so fundamentally counter to the most basic understanding of how the Constitution operates that it simply can't be upheld as a proper amendment."
Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2009
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We could all get a good laugh when the worthless coward begs for his life, the same way Karla Faye Tucker did while bush was governor of texas and thought her pleadings were a laugh riot.
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Writing the court, Garrison's wife also styled her name and pleadings in line with arguments put forward by sovereign citizens around the country.
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The barbarous system of "pleadings" was then in full vogue, though soon to be weeded out even in its parent England, and the law to be made a trial of facts instead of traverses, demurrers, avoidances, rebutters and surrebutters, churned out of the skim milk of words.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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In the mid-nineteenth century, American courts began to devise their own rules for pleadings, but again they required great specificity in alleging facts to support the claims presented.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Morgan Stanley declined to comment, but in court pleadings last year, lawyers for the firm said that St. Vincent representatives "authorized and were aware of" the specific investments that were made.
Government Joins Suit Over Pension John D. McKinnon 2011
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They have found out the hard way that their bleeding heart pleadings -- 'yes, the financial markets might destroy us, but how can we cut this or that worthy cause' -- don't cut it.
Warren Mosler: Modern Monetary Theory: The Last Progressive Left Standing Warren Mosler 2011
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Man stands powerless before the elevator: it has no thoughts, and it has no way of registering our thoughts, our frustrations, or desperate pleadings.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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