Allegation
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
A pleading; a statement of a fact; the assertion of a party in a cause of what he intends to prove. Allegation of Faculties: the statement made by the wife of the property of her husband, in order to her obtaining alimony. AUegatio contra factum non est admittenda: an allegation contradicting the deed (or the fact) should not be admitted.