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Revised Code of the Public General Laws, 1879
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ART. 64. ] PROCEEDINGS IN ACTIONS AT LAW. 601

Statement of Causes of Action on Contracts.

 

The following statements of causes of actions for the common
counts shall be sufficient, and the plaintiff may include two or more
of them in one count; but, after the statement of the first cause of
action, each subsequent statement should begin with the words
" and for. "

Statement of
cause of action
on contract

1st. ———— county, ss: A B, by S T, his attorney, sues C. D.
for goods sold by the plaintiff to the defendant, and the plaintiff
claims therefor the sum of $ ————.
S. T., Plaintiff's Attorney.

Common
counts

2d. Money payable by the defendant to the plaintiff for (these
words, "money payable, " etc, should precede money counts, like
the 1st to the 13th inclusive, but need only be inserted in the first)
goods bargained and sold by the plaintiff to the defendant.

same.
34 Md 98

3d. Work done and materials provided by the plaintiff for the
defendant at his request.

Same

4th. Money lent by the plaintiff to the defendant.

Same

5th. Money paid by the plaintiff for the defendant at his request.

same.

6th. Money received by the defendant for the use of the plaintiff.

Same

7th. Money found to be due from, the defendant to the plaintiff on
accounts stated between them.

same.

8th. A messuage and lands sold and conveyed by the plaintiff to
the defendant.

Lands sold

9th The goodwill of a business of the plaintiff sold and given up
by the plaintiff to the defendant

Good will of
business

10th. The defendant's use, by the plaintiff's permission, of mes-
suages and lands of the plaintiff

Use of lands

11th. The hire of (as the case may be), by the plaintiff let to hire
to the defendant.

Hire.

12th. Freight for the conveyance by the plaintiff for the defendant
at his request of goods in ships.

Freight

13th. The demurrage of a ship of the plaintiff kept on demur-
rage by the defendant.
The following forms, with the commencement and conclusion
before stated, shall be sufficient:

Demurrage

14th. That the defendant, on the —— day of ————, by his prom-
issory note, now overdue, promised to pay to the plaintiff $ ————
(sixty days) after date, but did not pay the same.

Promissory
notes, maker

15th. That one A. on, etc. (date), by his promissory note, now
overdue, promised to pay to the defendant, or order, $ —— (sixty
days) after date; and the defendant indorsed the same to the plain-
tiff; and the said note was duly presented for payment and was
dishonored, whereof the defendant had due notice, but did not pay
the same.

Indorser.

16th. That the plaintiff, on, etc. (date), by his bill of exchange,
now overdue, directed to the defendants, required the defendant to

Bill of
exchange.



 

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