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Peremptory plea






Peremptory plea

Pleading. A plea which denies the plaintiff's cause of action.

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Pleading
Practice. The statement in a logical, and legal form, of the facts which constitute the plaintiff's cause of action, or the defendant's ground of defence; it is the formal mode of alleging that on the record, which would be the support, or the defence of the party in evidence.

Plea
1) Chancery practice. "A plea," says Lord Bacon, speaking of proceedings in courts of equity, "is a foreign matter to discharge or stay the suit." 2) Practice. The defendant's answer by matter of fact, to the plaintiff's declaration.

Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.

Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.



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Peregrini
Civil law. Under the denomination of peregrini were comprehended all who did not enjoy any capacity of the law, namely, slaves, alien enemies, and such foreigners as belonged to nations with which the Romans bad not established relations.

Peremptory
Absolute; positive. A final determination to act without hope of renewing or altering.

Peremptory challenge
Request by a party that a judge not allow a certain prospective juror as a member of the jury. No reason or cause need be stated.

Peremptory defence
Equity, pleading. A defence which insists that the plaintiff never had the right to institute the suit, or that if he had, the original right is extinguished or determined.

Peremptory defense
That the plaintiff never had, or has not now, a right of action.Sham defense. A mere pretense of a defense, set up in bad faith, and without color of fact.



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Peregrini
Civil law. Under the denomination of peregrini were comprehended all who did not enjoy any capacity of the law, namely, slaves, alien enemies, and such foreigners as belonged to nations with which the Romans bad not established relations.

Peremptory
Absolute; positive. A final determination to act without hope of renewing or altering.

Peremptory challenge
Request by a party that a judge not allow a certain prospective juror as a member of the jury. No reason or cause need be stated.

Peremptory defence
Equity, pleading. A defence which insists that the plaintiff never had the right to institute the suit, or that if he had, the original right is extinguished or determined.

Peremptory defense
That the plaintiff never had, or has not now, a right of action.Sham defense. A mere pretense of a defense, set up in bad faith, and without color of fact.

Peremptory plea

Perfect
Something complete.

Perfidy
The act of one who has engaged his faith to do a thing, and does not do it, but does the contrary.

Performance
The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a performance.

Peril
The accident by which a thing is lost.

Peril of the sea
Peril of the sea is some catastrophic force or event that would not be expected in the area of the voyage, at that time of year and that could not be reasonably guarded against.

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