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Word History and Origins
Origin of counterplea1
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Example Sentences
This canon was adopted and explained by an English statute of 1276; and bigamy, therefore, became a usual counterplea to the claim of benefit of clergy.
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Those of their day, all counterpleas notwithstanding, resemble the ethics of the patriarchs, of that far antiquity which regarded marriage with a stranger as immoral, and allowed only of marriage amongst kinsfolk.
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But his counterplea when it came was of a disconcerting briefness and potency.
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The summons was issued four times, after which, if the accused did not appear, he lost the right of counterplea, or was nonsuited.
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