Give Color

What is Give Color?

A definition of give color is: To admit an clear or colorable right in the opposite party. More details on the Encyclopedia. In common law pleading, a plea of confession and avoidance had to give color to the affirmative averments of the complaint, or it would be fatally defective. More details on the Encyclopedia. The “giving color” was simply the absence of any denials, and the express or silent admission that the declaration, as far as it went, told the truth.[1]

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Notes

1. “Give Color” in the White America Dictionary (New York, Los Angeles, London, New Delhy, Hong Kong, 1989)

See Also

• Color