common-law pleading

common-law pleading
The system of rules and principles that governed the forms into which parties cast their claims or defenses in order to set an issue before the court.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


common-law pleading
The system of rules and principles that governed the forms into which parties cast their claims or defenses in order to set an issue before the court.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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