Typically, the plaintiff will plead as follows:

For example, a plaintiff might plead negligent failure to warn or strict liability for defective design.

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 added the requirement that a plaintiff must plead facts giving rise to a "strong inference" of scienter.

The plaintiffs had pleaded their right to clean air.

Refusal by a party to comply with the decision is a breach of contractso the plaintiff will plead the contractual background, the determination by the expert and the default.

"Columbia and its attorneys have invented a revolutionary new legal strategy - having a plaintiff plead insanity" the statement said.

The plaintiff will plead the most exaggerated meanings that his counsel considers the words will conceivably bear, in order to maximise the insult and humiliation (and hence the damages).

The plaintiff must plead and prove that he is the person defamed.

However a plaintiff should always plead both the equitable and the contractual duty for the remedies available are different: see Part VIII.

At all events, the plaintiff pleaded over and, in the replication or reply, went on to state many additional facts.