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Noun Concept
Categories: Notary, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Civil procedure, Legal documents, Articles with short description
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pleading  amended pleading  code pleading  Common count  Common counts
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(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding WordNet 3.0
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(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In law as practiced in countries that follow the English models, a pleading is a formal written statement of one party's claims or defenses in response to another party's complaint in a civil action. Wikipedia