Pleading
51responsive pleading — see pleading 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. responsive pleading …
52code pleading — see pleading 2 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. code pleading …
53Special pleading — is a form of spurious argumentation where a position in a dispute introduces favorable details or excludes unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves.… …
54sham pleading — see pleading 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. sham pleading n …
55supplemental pleading — see pleading 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. supplemental pleading …
56burden of pleading — | pleading burden =>> burden of allegation. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000. burden of pleading …
57Alternative pleading — permits a party in a court action to argue multiple possibilities that may be mutually exclusive. It is a legal fiction. A pleading in the alternative sets forth multiple claims or defenses either hypothetically or alternatively, such that if one …
58sham pleading — Those which are inherently false and must have been known by interposing party to be untrue. Pentecostal Holiness Church, Inc. v. Mauney, Fla.App., 270 So.2d 762, 769. A sham pleading , subject to motion to strike (Fed.R.Civil P. 12(f)), is one… …
59Special pleading — Special Spe cial, a. [L. specialis, fr. species a particular sort, kind, or quality: cf. F. sp[ e]cial. See {Species}, and cf. {Especial}.] 1. Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort. [1913 Webster] A special is called by… …
60fact pleading — see pleading 2 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
