defensive allegation

defensive allegation
A kind of pleading in which a defendant in an ecclesiastical cause must propound any circumstances he had to offer in his defense. Thereupon the defendant was entitled to the plaintiff's sworn answer to this defensive allegation, and thence the parties proceeded with their proofs. See 3 Bl Comm 100.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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