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Definitions of plea in various dictionaries:
noun - a humble request for help from someone in authority
noun - (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)
noun - an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed
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| Law An action or suit. |
| Law A special answer depending on or demonstrating one or more reasons why a suit should be delayed, dismissed, or barred in equity law. |
| An excuse a pretext: "necessity,The Tyrant's plea ( John Milton). |
| Law The answer of the accused to a criminal charge or indictment: entered a plea of not guilty. |
| Law A defendant's answer to the declaration made by the plaintiff in a civil action. |
| Law An allegation offered in pleading a case. |
| An earnest request an appeal: spoke out in a plea for greater tolerance. |
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In legal terms, a plea is simply an answer to a claim made by someone in a criminal case under common law using the adversarial system. Colloquially, a plea has come to mean the assertion * by a defendant at arraignment, or otherwise in response to a criminal charge, whether that person pleaded guilty, not guilty, no contest, (in the United States) Alford plea or (in the United Kingdom) no case to answer. * The concept of the plea is one of the major differences between criminal procedure under common law and procedure under the civil law system. Under common law, a plea of guilty by the defendant waives trial of the charged offences and the defendant may be sentenced immediately. This produces a system known under American law as plea bargaining. * In civil law jurisdictions, there is generally no concept of a plea of guilty. A confession by the defendant is treated like any other piece of evidence, and a full confession does not prevent a full trial from occurring or relieve the plaintiff |