Plee
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
See Fugitive. Plee to the wall. Signifies that a person must use every reasonable means of escape before he may kill a man who assails him with apparently felonious intent. To excuse homicide on the plea of self-defense it must appear that the slayer had no other possible (or at least probable) means of escaping from his assailant.* See Defense, 1; Retreat.