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pleading::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beseeching, imploring |
pleading::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | statement |
| Has types | affirmative pleading, special pleading, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoinder, replication, alternative pleading, answer, charge, complaint, defective pleading, demurrer, pleading in the alternative, rebuttal, rebutter, rejoinder |
| Derivation | plead |
Examples of pleading
pleading
Months later, Hart received an email from one of the players, pleading for help.
From the stltoday.com
Afterall they are pleading poverty with every other service the council provide.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
Cardinalli was convicted after pleading no contest to 99 felony counts of fraud.
From the sacbee.com
He kept apologizing and making excuses, pleading with her not to give up on him.
From the ocregister.com
Rodriguez no longer works for the airline and is pleading innocent, Rivera said.
From the dailyherald.com
Coleman himself passed these final hours pleading his case to a receptive press.
From the time.com
But by pleading guilty, the government has agreed to drop 18 counts against her.
From the heraldtribune.com
At one point, he is heard expressing horror and pleading for his mother to live.
From the nytimes.com
Before the game, he had been pleading with SLU coach Darin Hendrickson to start.
From the stltoday.com
- Beseeching: begging
- (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
- (plead) appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop"
- (plead) offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity"
- (plead) enter a plea, as in courts of law; "She pleaded not guilty"
- (plead) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
- "Pleading" is a poem written by Arthur L. Salmon, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1908, as his Op.48.
- Pleading in England and Wales is covered by the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR).
- Pleading in United States Federal courts is governed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
