plea

Examples of plaint

plaint
How could ordinary people, even when they were able to string letters together, write plaints articulately enough to grab the attention of those reluctant magistrates?
Ming authorities however allowed government and national university students to submit the plaints themselves if the matter was of critical importance to them.
In a case like that, the plaint would customarily be sent back from the prefectural court to the county court.
The litigant had to retain his litigation master even after his plaint had been accepted.
We have so far reviewed the proxy writing of plaints, but the same applied to defendants.
These two examples indicate that the scriveners wrote out the plaints that the litigation masters dictated, and affixed the official seal.
Neither does it include plaints submitted but not accepted by the authorities.
He also wrote plaints in a form acceptable to the courts, and coached litigants in their presentation.
That is why the government has repeatedly prohibited false plaints and officially licensed scriveners from writing claims on behalf of litigants.
It was wiser to consult a litigation specialist and to have him write the plaint and follow his advice throughout the litigation process.
They were all required to have somebody else hand in their plaints.
If a plaint was written correctly according to the format, it was to be accepted.
The magistrate summoned the scrivener and asked him who the woman had been with when she had asked him to write a plaint.
This is done because it was the defendant who usually paid the amercement in plaints that do identify plaintiff and defendant.
It must be an inexperienced plaint writer who has written these pretentious passages.
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