Pleadings Definition

plēdiŋz
noun
The statements setting forth to the court the claims of the plaintiff and the answer of the defendant.
Webster's New World
Formal, written declaration in legal form of logical statements setting forth the facts of the plaintiff’s allegations or the defendant’s responses, and or the reasons why each party believes that she is in the right (that is, the grounds).
Webster's New World Law

Plural form of pleading.

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Pleadings Sentence Examples

  • For this post he was well fitted by his knowledge of common law, his habitual attention to the pleadings in court and his power of clear statement.

  • There is a rare quarto giving the pleadings at the Council of Constance.

  • Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped.

  • The process could continue with a replication from the plaintiff, a rejoinder from the defendant (and possibly even further pleadings).

  • In 1857 Field became chairman of a state commission for the reduction into a written and systematic code of the whole body of law of the state, excepting those portions already reported upon by the Commissioners of Practice and Pleadings.

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