Law. = BEAU-PLEADER.
1670. Blount, Law Dict., s.v. Neither in the Circuit of Justices, nor in Counties … any Fines shall be taken of any Man for Fair pleading, that is, for not pleading, fairly or aptly to the purpose.
1700. [see BEAUPLEADER].
1721–1800. in Bailey.
1848. in Wharton, Law Lex.
