Jan 17, 2013 · On one side is John Chandler, a senior litigation partner at King & Spalding, who advocates “pled” despite the opinion of the editor of Black’s Law Dictionary.

Jan 25, 2021 · The confusion with pled comes when you consider the past tense of plead. Pleaded is the formal past tense, and it’s the one that style guides like The AP Stylebook and The Chicago …

Plead belongs to the same class of verbs as bleed, lead, and feed, and like them it has a past and past participle with a short vowel spelled pled (or sometimes plead, which is pronounced alike).

For the past tense of to plead, you may use either pleaded or pled. Example: He pleaded not guilty before his trial. Example: He pled not guilty before his trial. Note: In the strict legal sense, one cannot …

Pled is a variant of pleaded that is sometimes used as the simple past or past participle form of to plead. Despite gaining popularity in America, pled has never been considered completely standard in …

Both pleaded and pled are acceptable past tense forms of the common verb “plead.” “Pleaded” is the more widely used past tense and past participle form of the verb plead, and “pled” is a less common …

PLED definition: a simple past tense and past participle of plead. See examples of pled used in a sentence.