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n. - A plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea.

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Usage examples (4)
  • But his counterplea when it came was of a disconcerting briefness and potency.
  • We cannot evade Philosophy by immoderately pleading our human frailty and the sharpness of pain: Philosophy is merely constrained to have recourse to her unanswerable...
  • A criminal one, instituted to bring about the legal punishment of the guilty party, or one of certain other exceptional cases, he may, after hearing the cause of the summons,...
  • II, xii); also the forum of a counterplea (forum reconventionis sive reaccusationis), i.e. in a criminal suit the defendant can, on his side, accuse the plaintiff in the...
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