pleadable

[Eng. plead; -able.] Capable of being pleaded, or alleged in plea, proof, excuse, or vindication. "That no pardon under the great seal of England should be pleadable to an impeachment by the commons in parliament."-Burke: French Revolution. *pleadable-briefs, s . pl . Scots Law : Precepts directed to the sheriffs, who thereupon cite parties, and hear and determine. pleader, *pled-our, s. [Fr. plaideur , from plaider to plead (q. v.).] I. Ordinary Language : 1. One who pleads causes in a court of law, .; a lawyer. "A councellor or pleader at the bar." Roscommon: Horace; Art of Poetry. 2. One who offers reasons for or against; an arguer; a defender or maintainer of a cause. "If you Would be your country's pleader , your good tongue Might stop your countrymen." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , v. 1. II. Law : One who forms or draws up pleas or pleadings; as, a special pleader . plead-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [PLEAD.] A. & B. As pr. par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: I. Ord. Lang.: The act of advocating, defending, or supporting a cause by arguments or reasons. II. Law : 1. The act of advocating a cause in a court of law. 2. ( Pl. ): The written statements of parties in a suit at law, containing the declaration and claim of the plaintiff, or the answer or defense of the defendant. Pleadings consist of the declaration, the plea, the replication, the rejoinder, the surrejoinder, the rebutter, the sur-rebutter, ., which are succe ively filed, until the question is brought to i ue. [See these words.] Pleadings were formerly made by word of mouth in court. [PAROL.] plead-ing-ly, adv . [Eng. pleading ; -ly.] In a pleading manner; by pleading or supplication. ( Harper's Monthly , June, 1882, p. 117.) plead-ings, s. pl. [PLEADING, C. II. 2.] *plēaş-a-ble, a. [Eng. pleas (e); -able .] Pleasing, pleasant. "Suche thinges as were not pleasable to the ears of men."-Knox: Godly Letters (1544).