Argumentative
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In pleading.
Indirect. Steph. Fl. 179.
Pleadings must not be argumentative. Id. ch.
2, sect. 5, rule 3.
In other words, they must advance their positions of fact in an absolute form, and not leave them to be collected by inference and argument only. Id. ibid.