In pleading. A technical phrase essential in an indictment to charge the defendant with the crime of rape.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
pleadings. This is a technical phrase, essential in an indictment to charge the defendant with the crime of rape; no other word or circumlocution will answer the same purpose as these word’s. Ravished. It has been doubted whether these words were indispensable. But it would be unsafe to omit them.