Term: defective pleading: any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: figure of merit: a numerical expression representing the efficiency of a given system, material, or procedure
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: shaker: a container in which something can be shaken
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: quango: a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: usufructuary: someone who holds property by usufruct
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: skin cell: any of the cells making up the skin
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: bessemer process: an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: signalization: a conspicuous indication
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: calycanthus: a magnoliid dicot genus of the family Calycanthaceae including: allspice
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: almandine: a purple variety of the ruby spinel
Broader: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | Unrelated: escheat: a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs