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Definition of Mispleaded
1. misplead [v] - See also: misplead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mispleaded
Literary usage of Mispleaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1837)
"... is not the ordinary case of a particular pleading being objected to as
mispleaded, in which case the party can go upon the previous pleadings only. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, the Forms of Actions, and on Pleading by Joseph Chitty, John A. Dunlap (1819)
"In one case where the customary privilege was mispleaded, it being urged for the
defendant, that the courts would take notice of the privilege -and reject ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"... a judgment against an executor who has no assets to satisfy the debt in demand,
merely because his plea is mispleaded, or one of the judgments is false. ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"3,] though the issue, that the corporation was by prescription, was tried against
them ; yet having long acted as a corporation, they might have mispleaded ..."
5. The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, in Personal by William Tidd, Francis Joseph Troubat, Asa Israel Fish, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1856)
"... on a »cire facia» brought against him, the parol shall demur, because he may
have a good plea to bar the execution, which might be mispleaded. ..."
6. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"But if the replication be imperfect or defective in l Lev-196- - the manner of
pleading, it is aided by a rejoinder, admitting J^"^^^!) the thing mispleaded ..."
7. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With a Second Volume by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1876)
"... (p) In one case where the customary privilege was mispleaded, it being urged
for the defendant that the courts would take notice of the privilege, ..."
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