- hold pleas
- To take jurisdiction as a court or judicial tribunal. Thus, the county court might hold pleas of debt or damages under the value of forty shillings. See 3 Bl Comm 35.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
hold pleas
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