COUNTERPLEA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("counterplea" is a kind of...):

plea ((law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer))

Domain category:

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