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Definition of Plaint
1. Noun. (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
2. Noun. A cry of sorrow and grief. "Their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward"
Generic synonyms: Complaint
Derivative terms: Lament, Lament, Wail, Wail
Definition of Plaint
1. n. Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament.
Definition of Plaint
1. Noun. (context: poetic or archaic) A lament or woeful cry. ¹
2. Noun. A complaint. ¹
3. Noun. (archaic or UK legal) An accusation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plaint
1. a complaint [n -S] - See also: complaint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plaint
Literary usage of Plaint
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 Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"Now what is the evidence ; that there was a plaint levied, and a direction to
the officer in writing, (which might have been by parol,) to prevent mistake ..."
2. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"2. a plaint ii well removed, although the pone bears date before the plaint entered,
... So if one plaint is removed where another ought to have been, ibid, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, the Forms of Actions, and on Pleading by Joseph Chitty (1831)
"plaint," (Scroggs, 196.) If the demandant appears by his attorney, the steward
is then to enter the warrant of attorney by his name, or the two first ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"And it shall be the duty of whoever shall have prosecuted such cause, suit,
plaint, or indictment m said court во removed to a circuit court, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Henry Davison (1840)
"Therefore it was plaint as by considered and ordered by the court there that,
for the errors aforesaid, the plaint and proceedings should be set manded. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Replevin: As Administered in the Courts of the by Henry Ward Wells, Ebenezer Tracy Wells (1907)
"Proceedings under this statute were called " Proceedings by plaint. ... The affidavit
of modern practice is the " plaint" of ancient practice. Anderson v. ..."
7. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"The plaint of an ... who had been disinherited or at 1 This plaint is referred
to by Quintilian (vii 4 §§ 11,20); and two cases are discussed by Pliny (Ep. ..."
8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"Now what is the evidence ; that there was a plaint levied, and a direction to
the officer in writing, (which might have been by parol,) to prevent mistake ..."
9. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"2. a plaint ii well removed, although the pone bears date before the plaint entered,
... So if one plaint is removed where another ought to have been, ibid, ..."
10. A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, the Forms of Actions, and on Pleading by Joseph Chitty (1831)
"plaint," (Scroggs, 196.) If the demandant appears by his attorney, the steward
is then to enter the warrant of attorney by his name, or the two first ..."
11. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"And it shall be the duty of whoever shall have prosecuted such cause, suit,
plaint, or indictment m said court во removed to a circuit court, ..."
12. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Henry Davison (1840)
"Therefore it was plaint as by considered and ordered by the court there that,
for the errors aforesaid, the plaint and proceedings should be set manded. ..."
13. A Treatise on the Law of Replevin: As Administered in the Courts of the by Henry Ward Wells, Ebenezer Tracy Wells (1907)
"Proceedings under this statute were called " Proceedings by plaint. ... The affidavit
of modern practice is the " plaint" of ancient practice. Anderson v. ..."
14. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"The plaint of an ... who had been disinherited or at 1 This plaint is referred
to by Quintilian (vii 4 §§ 11,20); and two cases are discussed by Pliny (Ep. ..."
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