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Pleading vs Convey - What's the difference?

pleading | convey |

In legal|lang=en terms the difference between pleading and convey

is that pleading is (legal) a document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation while convey is (legal) to transfer legal rights (to).

As verbs the difference between pleading and convey

is that pleading is while convey is to transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.

As a noun pleading

is the act of making a plea.

As an adjective pleading

is that pleads.

pleading

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of making a plea.
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
    • But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
  • (legal) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pleads.
  • * 1955 , , Ann Lindsay, Earth , p. 251:
    • Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
  • * 1999 , (Simone de Beauvoir), The Mandarins , p. 599:
    • With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.
  • * 1993 , (Charles Haddon Spurgeon), Psalms , p. 225:
    • Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

    Derived terms

    * pleadingly

    Anagrams

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    convey

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.
    Air conveys''' sound; words '''convey ideas.
  • To communicate; to make known; to portray.
    • to convey''' an impression; to '''convey information
  • * John Locke
    • Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.
  • (legal) To transfer legal rights (to).
    • He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
  • * Spenser
    • The Earl of Desmond secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.
  • (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I will convey the business as I shall find means.
  • (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

    • Synonyms

    * (to convey a message) send, relay

    Derived terms

    * conveyable * conveyance * conveyee * conveyer * conveyor

    Related terms

    * convoy