Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pleadings"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pleadings \Plead"ings\, n. pl. (Law)
The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant,
or written statements of the parties in support of their
claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff,
until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
single point. --Blackstone.
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