(law, US) To invoke the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects witnesses from being forced to incriminate themselves.

(law) That may be pleaded

(archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of plead

A female given name from French. / A surname transferred from the given name.

(US law) The filing under state law of a claim naturally arising under federal law.

plural of artful pleading

(in use generally from the Middle English period to the fifteenth century and persisting in Scots until the seventeenth century) Obsolete spelling of please

(in use in Scots until the seventeenth century and in some English dialects in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) Obsolete spelling of place

That may be pleased.

In an pleading manner; with pleas.