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To invoke the right to use the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination. See Take the Fifth and the Fifth Amendment. … [Read more...] about PLEAD THE FIFTH

Lat. In Roman law. A law enacted by the plebs or commonalty, (that is, the citizens, with the exception of the patricians and senators,) at the request or on the proposition of a plebeian magistrate, such as a "tribune." Inst 1, 2, 4. … [Read more...] about PLEBISCITUM

Alleged or averred in form iu a judicial proceeding. It more often refers to matter of defense but not invariably. To say that matter in a declaration or replication is not well pleaded would not be deemed erroneous. … [Read more...] about PLEADED

Lat. In Roman law. The commonalty or citizens, exclusive of the patricians and senators. Inst 1, 2, 4. … [Read more...] about PLEBS

A person, whose business it is to draw pleadings. Formerly, when pleading at common law was a highly technical and difficult art, there was a class of men known as "special pleaders not at the bar," who held a position intermediate between counsel and attorneys. The elass is now almost extinct and the term "pleaders" is generally applied. In England, to junior members of the … [Read more...] about PLEADER