Definition of Affirmative pleading

1. Noun. Any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff.

Generic synonyms: Pleading
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Lexicographical Neighbors of Affirmative Pleading

affinous
affirm
affirmable
affirmably
affirmance
affirmances
affirmant
affirmants
affirmatio
affirmation
affirmations
affirmative
affirmative action
affirmative actions
affirmative defense
affirmative pleading (current term)
affirmative sentence
affirmative waste
affirmatively
affirmativeness
affirmatives
affirmatory
affirmaunce
affirme
affirmed
affirmer
affirmers
affirmeth
affirming
affirming the consequent

Literary usage of Affirmative pleading

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Practice and Procedure in the Several Courts Having Civil by Ivan Wotherspoon (1880)
"An affirmative pleading consists of two parts, the libel and the conclusion. In the libel,—or narration as it is sometimes called,—the facts which ..."

2. Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Common Pleas by Ontario Court of Common Pleas, Edward C Jones, George Frederick Harman, Upper Canada Court of Common Pleas, Salter Jehosaphat Van Koughnet, Christopher Robinson (1852)
"The lessee is not estopped by this presumption, if he can set up by affirmative pleading any lesser estate, consistent with the lessor's right to demise, ..."

3. Leading Cases of the Court of Civil Appeals of the State of Tennessee: With by Jos C Higgins, Tennessee Court of Civil Appeals, Court of Civil Appeals, Tennessee (1911)
"A set-off can be allowed only on affirmative Pleading. A set-off can be allowed in the Chancery Court only on affirmative pleading. ..."

4. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen (1894)
"... rule that an affirmative pleading that does not conclude to the country must conclude with a verification, (m) As the ancient rule requiring an offer of ..."

5. Hand-book of Common-law Pleading by Benjamin Jonson Shipman (1895)
"etc.; and hence the rule that an affirmative pleading that does not conclude to the country must conclude with a verification. As the ancient rule requiring ..."

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