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PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND
PROCESS AT LAW.
1. What in general they shall be.
Pleadings.
2. Facts only to be stated.
3. Plain statement of facts to be suffi-
ficient.
4. Formal conclusions and termina-
tions to be unnecessary.
5. Statement of time and place, when
unnecessary.
6. Special demurrers abolished.
7. General demurrer to be allowed,
when.
8. Pleading over after demurrer
overruled to be permitted with-
out waiver of demurrer.
9. For what defects Judgment shall
not be arrested.
10. As many several matters to be
pleaded throughout the pleadings
as parties think necessary; de-
parture.
11. Non est factum to be sworn to;
in what cases and how oath may
be dispensed with.
12. Counter claim or set-off to suit on
specialty.
13. Counter claim or set-off to suit on
simple contract.
14. Suit at law may be maintained on
lost negotiable instrument; pro-
cedure in such cases.
15. Truth may be given In evidence
on general issue in criminal pros-
ecutions for libel.
16. Breaches iIn suits on bond of
clerks and registers; how to be
suggested.
17. Plea non damnificatus not to be
received in such suits.
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18. Execution on forfeited recogni-
zance.
19. Pleadings upon return of execu-
tion in such cases.
20. Payment of money iuto court, in
what cases allowed.
21. Replications to plea of payment
into court; further proceedings
in such cases.
22. Patented names of lands not neces-
sary to be stated; substantial de-
scription of lands to be sufficient.
23. Suits against insurance, surety or
bonding companies.
Forms of Pleadings.
24. Forms given to be sufficient; sub-
stance only necessary to be ex-
pressed; form of commencement
of declarations; conclusion of
declarations.
Sub-sees 1-25. Statement of causes
of action on contracts.
Sub-sec. 26. On bill obligatory or
bond.
Sub-sec. 27. By assignee of chose
in action.
Sub-secs. 28-38. For wrongs inde-
pendent of contract.
Sub-secs. 39-40. Commencement of
pleas.
Sub-secs. 41-57. Pleas in actions
on simple contract.
Sub-secs. 58-62. Pleas in actions
for wrongs.
Sub-sees. 63-77. Replications.
Sub-secs. 78-80. New assignment.
Sub-secs. 81-83. Pleas in abate-
ment.
Sub-sec. 84. Affidavit to pleas in
abatement.
Sub-sec. 85. Declaration where
some of defendants are re-
turned non est.
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