Issuable Plea
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A plea in chief to the merits, upon which the plaintiff may take issue and go to trial.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A plea to the merits; a traversable plea. A plea such that the adverse party can join issue upon it and go to tnal. It is true a plea in abatement is a plea, and, if it be properly pleaded, issues may be found on it. In the ordinary meaning of the word "plea," and of the word "issuable," such pleas may be called "issuable pleas," but, when these two words are used together, "issuable plea," or "issuable defense," they have a technical meaning, to-wit, pleas to the merits. Colquitt v. Mercer, 44 Ga. 434
Defined under Issuable in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A plea to the merjis; atraversuble plea. A. plea such that the adverse party can join issue upon it and go to trial.: It is true a plea in abatement is a plea, and, if it be properly pleaded, issues may be found on it. In the ordinary meaning of the word “plea,” and of the word “issuable,” such pleas may be called “issuable pleas,” but, when these two words are used together, “issuable plea,” or “issuable detense,” they have a technical meaning, to-wit, pleas to the merits, 44 Ga. 434,