Affirmative Pregnant
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In pleading. An affirmative allegation implying some negative in favor of the adverse party. For example, if to an action of assumpsit, which is barred by the act of limitations m six years, the defendant pleads that he did ten years would be an affirmative pregnant, since it would impliedly admit that the defendant had not promised within six years. Such a plea should be demurred to. Gould, PI. c. 6, §§ 29, 37; Steph. PI. 381; Lawes, Civ. PI. 113; Bac. Abr. "Pleas" (note 6). See "Negative Pregnant."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An affirmative allegation implying some negative in favor of the adverse party. For example, if to an action of assumpsit, which is barred by the statute of limitations in six years, the defendant pleads that he did not undertake, etc., within ten years, a replication that he did undertake, etc., within ten years would be an affirmative pregnant; since it would impliedly admit that the defendant had not promised within six years. Such a plea should be demurred to; Gould, PI. c. 6, §§ 29, 37; Steph. PI. 381; Bacon, Abr. Pleas (n. 6).
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In pleading. An affirmative allegation implying some negative in favor of the adverse party. Fields v. State, 134 Ind. 46, 32 N. E. 780.
Defined under Affirmative in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In pleading. An altirmative allegation implying some negative in favor of the adverse: party.