Term: affirmative pleading: any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff
Candidate hypernym: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding → 1
Candidate hypernym: plutonium: a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239 → 0
Candidate hypernym: estrogen antagonist: an antagonist for estrogen that is used in the treatment of breast cancer → 0
Candidate hypernym: congressional district: a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives → 0
Candidate hypernym: seasickness: motion sickness experienced while traveling on water → 0
Candidate hypernym: class list: a list issued by examiners that categorizes students according to the class of honours they achieved in their degree examinations → 0
Candidate hypernym: scandalmongering: spreading malicious gossip → 0
Candidate hypernym: digital vein: one of the veins serving the fingers or toes → 0
Candidate hypernym: sesamum: tropical African and Indian herbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: cirrhosis: a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism → 0
Candidate hypernym: metarule: a rule that describes how other rules should be used (as in AI) → 0