AFFIRMATIVE PLEADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affirmative pleading mean? 

• AFFIRMATIVE PLEADING (noun)
  The noun AFFIRMATIVE PLEADING has 1 sense:

1. any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff

  Familiarity information: AFFIRMATIVE PLEADING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFIRMATIVE PLEADING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("affirmative pleading" is a kind of...):

pleading ((law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)