counterplea

Also found in: Thesaurus, Legal.

counterplea

(ˈkaʊntəpliː)

(Law) law rare a reply to a plea

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

counterplea - a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea

plea - (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)

law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

Deyaar's lawyer Khalid Al Hamrani, of Al Tamimi and Co, handed the court a counterplea in which he asked the judge to reject Al Shamsi's petition.

Court urged to combine proceedings in two cases

For instance, Heath renders two common sorts of evidence, eggraphos and agraphos, as "documentary" and "non-documentary," to me a clear improvement on the more literal "written" and "unwritten." Similarly, Heath's casting of antilepsis as "counterplea" is surely preferable to Nadeau's "plea of justification" (1964, p.