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Dispute vs Plea - What's the difference?

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Dispute is a related term of plea.


As verbs the difference between dispute and plea

is that dispute is while plea is to fold, fold up, double.

dispute

English

(wikipedia dispute)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
  • Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
  • * Milton
    • Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute .
  • Contest; struggle; quarrel.
    • (Defoe)

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (disput)
  • To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
  • To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
    • Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
  • To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.
    • to dispute assertions or arguments
  • * Bancroft
    • to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
  • To strive or contend about; to contest.
  • * Prescott
    • to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
  • (obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Dispute it [grief] like a man.

    Related terms

    * disputable * disputant * disputation * disputatious * disputative

    Derived terms

    * industrial dispute

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    plea

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
    • a plea for mercy
  • An excuse; an apology.
    • 1667', ''Necessity, the tyrant’s '''plea .'' --, ''Paradise Lost IV.393
    (rfdate) No plea must serve; ‘t is cruelty to spare. -- .
  • That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
  • (legal) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
  • (legal) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
  • (legal) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
  • (legal) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common.
    • (rfdate) The Supreme Judicial Court shall have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed. --Laws of Massachusetts.

    Usage notes

    In 19th century U.K. law, that which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant’s plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant’s formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him/her.

    Related terms

    * pleas of the crown * plead * pleasant * please * pleasurable * pleasure

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