Counter-Plea
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In pleating. <A plea to some niatter incidental to the main ouject of the suil, and out of the direct line of pleadings, In the more ancient system of pleading, conuter-plea was applied to what was, in effect, a replication to aid prayer, (q. v.;) that is, Where a tenant for life or other limited interest in land, having an action brought against him in respect to the title to such mandant alleged against cifher request was ealled a “counter-plea.”
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