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Pledges to return the subject of distress, should the right be determined against the party bringing the action of replevin. 8 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 422 … [Read more...] about PLEGII DE RETORNO HABENDO

In old records. A mother church. … [Read more...] about PLEBIANA

Latin meaning no contest. Essentially a guilty plea where the defendant seeks the mercy of the court with regard to sentencing. … [Read more...] about PLEA OF NOLO CONTENDERE

civil law. This is an anglicised word from the Latin plebiscitum, which is composed or derived from plebs and scire, and signifies, to establish or ordain. 2. A plebiscit was a law which the people, separated from the senators and the patricians, made on the requisition of one of their magistrates, that is, a tribune. Inst. 1, 2, 4. … [Read more...] about PLEBISCIT

The formal entry of the defendant's defence on the record. In a popular sense, it signifies the argument in a cause, but it is not so used by the profession. To make, deliver, or file any pleading; to conduct the pleadings in a cause. To interpose any pleading in a suit which contains allegations of fact; in this sense the word is the antithesis of "demur." More particularly', … [Read more...] about PLEAD