The act or process of making opposing legal arguments or claims in response to another party's plea.
Gerund form of counterplead; the noun form developed naturally as legal practice formalized these responsive arguments into a distinct procedural stage.
Counterpleading is the formal way lawyers say 'I disagree, and here's why'—it's such a structured part of legal procedure that entire cases can turn on whether a counterpleading is filed in time or written correctly.
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