The pleadlngs are the formal allegations by the parties of their respective claims and defenses, for the judg-ment of the court. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. S 420
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In old English ecclesiastic-al law. A rural dean. Cowell
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A person,whose business it is to draw pleadings. Formerly, when plead-ing at common law was a hlghly technical and difficult art, there was a class of men known as “special pleaders not at the bar,” who held a position intermediate between counsel and attorneys. The class is now al-most extinct, and the term “pleaders” is generally applled. in England, to junior mem-bees of the common-law bar. Sweet
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The peculiar science ot system of rules and principles, established in the common law, according to which the pleadings or responsive allegations of litigating parties are framed, with a view to preserve technical propriety and to produce a proper issue
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To make, deliver, or file any pleading; to conduct the pleadings in a cause. To interpose any pleading in a suit which contalns allegations of fact; in this sense the word is the antithesis of “demur.” More particularly, to deliver in a formal manner the defendant’s answer to the plain-tiff’s declaration, or to the indictment, as the case may be
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Alleged or averred, in form, In a Judicial proceeding
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A Spanish word, meaning a ‘ public square in a city or town. Sachs v. Towanda, 79 IU. App. 441
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In old English law. A suit or action. Thus, the power to “hold pleas” is the power to take cognizance of actions or suits; so “common pleas” are actions or suits between private persons. And this meaning of the word still appears in the modern declarations, where it is stated, e. g., that the defendant “has been summoned to answer the plaintiff in a plea of debt.”
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or PLOT. A map, or representation on paper, of a piece of land subdivided into lots, with streets, alleys, etc., usually drawn to a scale. McDaniel ▼. Mace, 47
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The fixtures, tools, machinery, and apparatus whlch are necessary to carry on a trade or business, wharton. Southern Bell Tel. Co. v. D’Alemberte, 89 Fla. 25, 21 South. 570; Sloss-ShefBeld Steel Co. ▼. Mobley, 139 Ala. 425, 36 South. 181; Maxwell v. wilmington Dental Mfg. Co. (C. CO 77 Fed. 941
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A person who brings an action; the party Who complains or sues in a personal actlon and is so named on the record. Gulf, etc., R. Co. v. Scott (Tex. Clv. App.) 28 S. W. 458; Canaan v. Greenwoods Turnpike Co., 1 Conn. 1
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A map, chart, or design; being a delineation or projection on a plane sur-face of the ground lines of a house, farm, street, city, etc., reduced in absolute length, but preserving their relative positions and proportion. Jenney v. Des Moines, 103 Iowa, 347, 72 N. W. 550; wetherill v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 195 Pa. 156, 45 Atl. 658u
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Fr. An obsolete term for an attorney who pleaded the cause of hls client; an advocate
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In Enclisb praotioe. A prlvate memorial tendered in open court to the Judge, wherein the party injured sets forth his cause of action. A proceeding in inferior courts by which an action is com menced without original writ. 3 Bl. Comm. 373. Thls mode of proceeding is commonly adopted in cases of replevin. 3 Steph. Comm. 666
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Lat in the clvll law. Man-stealing; kidnapping. The offense of enticing away and stealing men, children, and slaves. Calvin. The persuading a slave to escape from hls master, or the concealing or harboring him without the knowledge of hls master. Dlg. 48, 15, 6
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Lat in the civil law. A man-stealer; a kidnapper. Dig. 48, 15, 1; 4 Bl. Comm. 219
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The act of appropriating, the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of hls writings, or tbe Ideas or language of the same, and passlng them off as the product of one’s own mind
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A day past or lost to the defendant 1 Hen. L c. 59
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