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ch is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

A erroneous statement or allegation. Bp. Hall.

To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

Allegation. [Obs.]

Allegation. [Obs.] With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson.

A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.

ent of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution. Wharton.

o the evidence offered by the opposite party, and an objecting to proceed further, on the allegation that such evidence is not sufficient in law to maintain the issue, and a reference to the court to determine the point. Bouvier.

The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. Blackstone.

An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.

struction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.

tual object, however, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, answer to the allegations of the opposite party.

Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.

That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration…

To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in…

The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.

transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation. Burn.