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...

Pleading Guilty (1993), is Scott Turow's third novel, and like the previous two it is set in fictional Kindle County. The story is a legal thriller about...

Alternative pleading (or pleading in the alternative) is the legal term in the law of the United States for a form of pleading that permits a party in...

Special pleading is an informal fallacy wherein one cites something as an exception to a general or universal principle, without justifying the special...

An abatement in pleading, or plea in abatement, was a defence in common law to legal proceedings that did not contest the principle of the plaintiff's...

The Pleading in English Act 1362 (36 Edw. 3 Stat. 1. c. 15), often rendered Statute of Pleading, was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act complained...

Pleading the belly was a process in English common law which permitted a woman in the later stages of pregnancy to receive a reprieve of her death sentence...

that no fine shall be taken of anyone in any court for fair pleading, i.e. for not pleading aptly, and to the purpose. Statute of Marlborough  This article...

Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice (usually called simply Archbold) is the leading practitioners' book for criminal lawyers in England and...

serve as a witness in a criminal case in which he or she is a defendant. "Pleading the Fifth" is a colloquial term often used to invoke the Self-Incrimination...