pleadings's Usage Examples:

Indeed, a great part of his life was passed in hearing pleadings and pronouncing judgments, and few sovereigns have ever worked so industriously or shown such solicitude for the impartial exercise of their judicial functions.

Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped.

53, 54), and his pleadings were successful.

by Lilley (London, eloquent 1098), pleadings by Italian priest, substantially on M.

He also continued his pleadings for the annexation of Texas, as extending "the area of freedom," and though a Democrat, took high moral ground as to slavery; he likewise made himself the authority on the North-Western Boundary question.

Michel de Bourges was the counsel whose eloquent pleadings brought the suit for a judicial separation to a successful issue in 1836.

rejoinder from the defendant (and possibly even further pleadings ).

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

Amendment of pleadings; Registrar's inherent jurisdiction.

Lysias maintained, in one of his pleadings quoted by Harpocration, that forced abortion could not be considered homicide, because a child in utero was not an animal, and had no separate existence.

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

Synonyms:

bid, press, entreat, invoke, beg, adjure, implore, pray, appeal, conjure, beseech,

Antonyms:

delay, unattractiveness, repel, bless, curse,