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be pleaded
verb
To present an argument, especially in a legal case.
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Paymaster contends that the law at the time of pleadings required facts, not evidence and law to be pleaded.
If concern about such license agreements is proper, as our cases indicate that it is, the accused infringer should have available an estoppel defense that can be pleaded affirmatively and determined on a pretrial motion for judgment on the pleadings or summary judgment.
Under those rules, facts and not law, were to be pleaded.
Res judicata and collateral estoppel are affirmative defenses that must be pleaded.
It is then that the defense of insanity must be pleaded (15 Ala.Code § 423), or the opportunity is lost.
Although Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(c) generally requires affirmative defenses to be pleaded, courts have been more lenient in the context of motions for summary judgment.
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This doll seemed to be pleading to be saved.
Even if it's pleaded out.
The B-felonies were pleaded down.
"Teach them how bad drugs are," pleaded Mrs. Cohen.
He's pleaded innocent; being held without bail.
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