- insufficient pleading
- A pleading which will not stand against a demurrer or motion which is the equivalent of a demurrer. State v Burgdoerfer, 107 Mo 1, 17 SW 646.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
insufficient pleading
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