defective pleading

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   any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency

   Broaderpleading

   law

Questions about defective pleading

What does defective pleading mean?

defective pleading means "any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency".

Is defective pleading a common word?

defective 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.