The defendant need not allege or prove any reason for change.

"The defendant has not alleged any facts that would support such a finding in this case."

The defendant alleged he had been led to believe by the informant that he was not selling heroin but a counterfeit.

In the former, the defendant alleged that her signature to a promissory note was obtained by duress and threats on her husband's part.

A defendant can allege affirmative defenses in its answer to the complaint.

The defendant alleged that he was the victim of a "racist plot" in the prosecution's efforts to find him legally insane, and his behavior irrational.

The defendants alleged short delivery under a contract of carriage and withheld part of the freight payable under the contract.

Several defendants alleged that their testimony had been coerced under torture, and the trial verdict noted the torture allegations.

The five defendants alleged in open court that they had been tortured, but the allegations were not investigated by the court.

In English law, a contramandatum was a lawful excuse, which the defendant by his attorney alleged for himself, to show that the plaintiff had no cause to complain.