Word Meanings - JEOFAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. Blackstone.

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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
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• 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.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude. 2. The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth,
• PLEADING
  The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.
• OVERSIGHT
  1. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision. 2. An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker. 3. Escape from an overlooked peril. "His fool-happy oversight." Spenser. Syn. -- Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking;
• PLEADABLE
  Capable of being pleaded; capable of being alleged in proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at law. Dryden.
• MISTAKENLY
  By mistake. Goldsmith.
• MISTAKENNESS
  Erroneousness.
• 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.