Word Meanings - MISPLEADING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An error 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.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• 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.
• ERROR
  The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. The difference between the observed value
• ERRORIST
  One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD
• IMPLEAD
  To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• 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.
• TERRORISM
  The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.
• 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
• NIGHT TERRORS
  A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.
• UNPLEADED
  1. Not used as a plea; not urged; as, an unpleaded excuse. 2. Not supported by pleas; undefended; as, an unpleaded suit.
• TERROR
  tersere; akin to Gr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to 1. Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. Terror seized the rebel host. Milton. 2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.