Word Meanings - MISPLEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To err in pleading.

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• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• PLEADINGLY
  In a pleading manner.
• PLEAD
  To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of
• PLEADER
  One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.
• PLEADING
  The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.
• PLEADABLE
  Capable of being pleaded; capable of being alleged in proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at law. Dryden.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD
• IMPLEAD
  To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.
• UPLEAD
  To lead upward.
• MISPLEAD
  To err in pleading.
• INTERPLEAD
  To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves,
• REPLEADER
  A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone.
• INTERPLEADER
  A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they
• UNPLEADED
  1. Not used as a plea; not urged; as, an unpleaded excuse. 2. Not supported by pleas; undefended; as, an unpleaded suit.
• IMPLEADER
  One who prosecutes or sues another.
• EMPLEAD
  To accuse; to indict. See Implead.
• MISPLEADING
  An error in pleading.
• IMPLEADABLE
  Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous. T. Adams.
• REPLEAD
  To plead again.