See plea in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1782, \"An Act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the Commonwealth\", quoted in The Constitutional History of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Frank Washburn Grinnell, 1917, page 434",
"text": "they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed."
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plea.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plea.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plea.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plea.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iː"
}
],
"word": "plea"
}
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