Law

• answer

  The principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal...

• bill of Particulars

  The particular events to be dealt with in a criminal trial; advises the defendant...

• affirmative pleading

  Any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts...

• alternative pleading

  A pleading that alleges facts so separate that it is difficult to determine...

• defective pleading

  Any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards...

• demurrer

  (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings.

• rebutter

  (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

• replication

  (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer.

• rejoinder

  (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication.

• special pleading

  (law) a pleading that alleges new facts in avoidance of the opposing allegatio...

• surrebutter

  (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter.

• surrejoinder

  (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder.

Also contains

• charge

  (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge...

• complaint

  (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim...