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Plea

Plea legal meaning, translation and judicial precedents.

Meaning & Judicial Interpretation: (اردو مفہوم اور قانونی تشریح)

2025 PLD 685 SUPREME-COURT Judicial Precedent
Arts.117 & 120PleaScope

Merely alleging a specific plea cannot legally be considered as sufficient unless proved on the record.

2010 SCMR 91 SUPREME-COURT Judicial Precedent
Raising and abandoning of pleaPrinciple

Party to litigation cannot, at its own whims, abandon a plea and then at a later stage re-agitate the same.

2010 YLR 1430 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent
Objections, raising ofScopeAny legal or factual objection has to be taken at the first instance

If party fails to raise any objection, that party cannot be permitted to raise the same at appellate level or in revisional Court

Such non-raising of any plea is deemed to have waived the plea.

2007 CLC 1635 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent

No bar on a party to a lis to abandon a plea and bank upon an alternative ground or plea, which is not inconsistent or contradictory

Party cannot be stopped or precluded from adopting such course

Party can ask for a lesser relief than the one claimed in the case.

2006 MLD 1521 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent

Correctness of plaintiff's case could be inferred from falsity of defendant's plea.

2006 MLD 1521 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent
Defendant arguing a plea not raised in written statement and proved through evidence

Defendant had failed to prove his defence.

2006 PLC 630 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent
Inconsistent pleasEffect

Party is debarred from taking inconsistent pleas, which amount to prejudice the right of other party specially and is self-destructive in themselves.

2005 SCMR 25 SUPREME-COURT Judicial Precedent
Contradictory pleaEffect

Authorities had taken contradictory pleas before various forums such as High Court, Service Tribunal, National Assembly and Supreme Court

Supreme Court declined to reconcile such contradictory statements, as the same depicted unfair practice, lack of honesty and straightforwardness.

2005 PLC(CS) 1117 SUPREME-COURT Judicial Precedent
Contradictory pleaEffect

Authorities had taken contradictory pleas before various forums such as High Court, Service Tribunal, National Assembly and Supreme Court

Supreme Court declined to reconcile such contradictory statements, as the same depicted unfair practice, lack of honesty and straightforwardness.

2005 YLR 2091 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent
S. 42Plea- Rebuttal

Plaintiff (daughter of the deceased) filed suits in 1990 and claimed her share from her three brothers who had filed separate claims and got allotted evacuee land

Father had died in 1921 and mutation of inheritance was sanctioned in the names of sons

Plea that devolution took place under the custom was not denied

No plea about knowledge of separate claims and allotment was on record

Concurrent finding was not disturbed in revision, in circumstances.

2005 CLC 628 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent
Plea not raised in pleadingsEffect

Un-pleaded case deserves no consideration, as the same could not have been proved.

2003 PLC 110 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH Judicial Precedent
Plea

party cannot be allowed to make gain on the basis of a plea which is not raised by him at the earliest stage.

2000 YLR 1787 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH Judicial Precedent

In absence of a specific plea taken in pleadings, same cannot be raised.

1997 PLD 38 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent

Plea Party to the lis cannot be prevented by Court from giving up a plea raised by it.

1992 MLD 751 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent
PleaContradictory pleas

Pleas of ownership of land and also its adverse possession were irreconcilable.

1989 CLC 1979 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH Judicial Precedent

Plea Plea of law can be taken at any time.

1989 CLC 1433 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH Judicial Precedent

Plea Inconsistent legal pleas in juxtaposition to each other in two proceedings pertaining to same subject?matter taken by the same counsel is not desirable. 702

1981 PLD 286 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE Judicial Precedent

Plea of law not raised during hearing of appeal-Held, eau be raised subsequently.-[Appeal (civil)].

1971 PLD 189 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH Judicial Precedent

Plea Plea-Legal plea could be allowed to be raised at any time.

1970 PLD 125 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH Judicial Precedent

Plea Plea-Must be specifically stated in pleadings-Cannot be introduced afterwards-Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. VI.

1970 PLD 786 DHAKA-HIGH-COURT Judicial Precedent

Plea of-Cannot be raised against statute -Evidence Act (1 of 1872), S. 115.

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Precedents & Case Laws citing "Plea"

SCMR 2018
Decided on 25th May, 2018.

2018 S C M R 1551

WING WHA WONG — Appellant Versus HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN — Respondent

Court: Supreme Court of Canada
CLC 1985
Civil Suit No. 360 of 1973, decided on 5th May, 1985.

1985 C L C 2146

St. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION (Pakistan) — Plaintiff Versus PAKISTAN RED-CROSS SOCIETY and another — Defendants

Court: Karachi
PCRLJ 1992
N/A

1992 P Cr

TARIQ alias BABOO — Appellant Versus THE STATE — Respondent

Court: Karachi
PCRLJ 2011
23rd August 2010

2011 P Cr

MINHON KHAN CHANDIO — Petitioner Versus NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU and another — Respondents

Court: Karachi
PCRLJ 1985
Criminal Revision No. 734‑B of 1985, decided on 8th May, 1985.

1985 P C r

AMJAD SAEED alias MAHAM and others‑‑Petitioners Versus THE STATE‑‑Respondent

Court: Lahore
SCMR 2018
Civil Petition No. 2028 of 2017, decided on 13th October, 2017.

2018 S C M R 82

Haji SULTAN ABDUL MAJEED (DECD) through Mehboob Sultan and Habib Sultan and others — Petitioners Versus Mst. SHAMIM AKHTAR (DECD) through Mah Jabeen and others — Respondents

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
PCRLJ 2017
2017-March-7

2017 P Cr

NADEEM AHMED RAJPUT — Petitioner Versus CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU and 3 others — Respondents

Court: Sindh (Sukkur Bench)
SCMR 2017
Decided on 23rd June, 2017.

2017 S C M R 1524

JAE LEE — Appellant Versus UNITED STATES — Respondent

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
SCMR 1994
Civil Appeals Nos. 1019 to 1023 of 1990, decided on 17th November, 1992.

1994 S C M R 1449

MUHAMMAD SAEED and another‑‑‑Appellants Versus MUHAMMAD IRFAN and others‑‑‑Respondents

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
MLD 2016
2015-November-23

2016 M L D 1700

AURANGZEB — Petitioner Versus The STATE and another — Respondents

Court: Peshawar