WordNet: pleading
(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
- domain: topic jurisprudence, law
- hypernym statement
- hyponym affirmative pleading
- hyponym answer
- hyponym charge, complaint
- hyponym complaint
- hyponym defective pleading
- hyponym demurrer
- hyponym rebuttal, rebutter
- hyponym replication
- hyponym rejoinder
- hyponym special pleading
- hyponym surrebuttal, surrebutter
- hyponym surrejoinder
pleading
- (englanti) plead (derivationally related)