Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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theory-of-pleading doctrine

The principle -now outmoded - that one must prove a case exactly as pleaded. ( Various modern codes and rules of civil procedure have abolished this strict pleading-and-proof requirement. ( For example, Fed. R. Civ. P. 15 allows amendment of pleadings to conform to the evidence.