Pleader

A person whose business it is to draw pleadings. Formerly, when pleading at common law was a highly technical and difficult art, there was a class of men known as "special pleaders not at the bar," who held a position intermediate between counsel and attorneys. The class is now almost extinct, and the term "pleaders" is generally applied, in England, to junior members of the common-law bar. Sweet.

— Special pleader. In English practice. A person whose professional occupation is to give verbal or written opinions upon statements made verbally or in writing, and to draw pleadings, civil or criminal, and such practical proceedings as may be out of the usual course. 2 Ohit. Pr. 42.

A person professionally employed to manage another's cause for him, particularly to plead orally, or argue for him in court V. Special pleader.

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The draughtsman of a plea, in the broad sense of that word; one who prepared the bill, complaint, declaration, petition, answer, demurrer, or plea, &c., in question.