Legal Definition and Related Resources of Argument

forth for the purpose of establishing desired conclusions. Legally, the address of counsel to court made in furtherance of the cause . A pleading is said to be argumentative, when, in addition to setting forth the facts, it contains reasoning or arguments upon those facts and their relation to the matter in dispute . Also where the pleading states a material fact by inference only.

(Contention), noun

• altercation
• antagonism
• belligerency
• bickering
• breach
• clashing
• conflict
• contentiousness
• controversy
• crosspurposes
• debate
• difference of opinion
• disaccord
• disagreement
• discord
• disputatio
• disputation
• dispute
• dissension
• dissent
• dissidence
• disunion
• disunity
• division
• divisiveness
• feud
• hard feelings
• hostility
• ill feeling
• ill will
• lack of concord
• misunderstanding
• opposition
• oral contention
• polemics
• quarrel
• quarreling
• strife
• variance
• verbal conflict
• war of words
• wrangle
• wrangling
• Associated Concepts: a posteriori
• a priori
• apex juris
• foreign phrases: In rebus manifestis
• errat qui auctori tates legum allegat; quia perspicua vera non sunt probanda
• In clear cases
• he errs who cites legal authorities because obvious truths are manifest and do not have to be proved
• Argumentum ab inconvenienti est validum in lege; quia lex nonpermittit aliquod inconveniens
• An argument drawn from what is inconvenient is good in law
• because the law will not permit any inconvenience

(Pleading), noun

• argument at the bar
• counterstatement
• course of reasoning
• defense
• demonstration
• discourse designed to convince
• disputation
• expression of opinion for or against
• plea
• pleading
• rationale
• rebuttal
• refutation
• statement of defense
• statement offered in proof
• statement tending to prove a point
• submission
• Associated Concepts: argument submitted to the court
• closing argument
• equittable argument
• legal argument
• opening argument
• oral argument
• preargument statement
• foreign phrases: In rebus manifestis
• errat qui auctori tates legum allegat; quia perspicua vera non sunt probanda
• In clear cases
• he errs who cites legal authorities because obvious truths are manifest and do not have to be proved

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Amicus Curiae, Contest, Convince, Dicta, Doe, John, Establish, Grounds, Insane Delusion, , Maxim.

Meaning of Argument in Spanish

Description/ translation of argument into Spanish: (=oral argument): pruebas y alegaciones asociadas, que las partes presentan durante el juicio oral, intervención (en el contexto del turno de intervenciones); opening argument = turno de intervención (en la fase de juicio oral, momento en el que cada una de las partes expone sus respectivas conclusiones provisionales antes de pasar a la fase de prueba)[1]

Note: for more information on related terms and on the area of law where argument belongs (criminal procedure law), in Spanish, see here.

Notes and References

1. Translation of Argument published by Antonio Peñaranda

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