Peremptory Plea
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A plea which goes to destroy the right of action itself; a plea in bar or to the action.
3 Steph. Comm. 576; 3 Wooddeson, Lect. 57; 2 Saund. PI. & Ev. 645; 3 Bouv. Inst, note 2891.