affirmative pleading

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   any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff

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Questions about affirmative pleading

What does affirmative pleading mean?

affirmative pleading means "any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff".

Is affirmative pleading a common word?

affirmative pleading is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.