English noun: pleading |
1. | pleading (communication) (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding |
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| Broader (hypernym) | statement |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | affirmative pleading, alternative pleading, answer, charge, complaint, complaint, defective pleading, demurrer, pleading in the alternative, rebuttal, rebutter, rejoinder, replication, special pleading, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoinder |
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| Part holonym | bill of Particulars |
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| Domain category | jurisprudence, law |
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