1086 PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS AT LAW. [ART. 75.

P. G L., (1860,) art. 74, sec. 30. 1853, ch. 214, sec. 20.

30. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to
prevent the employment of any person to pilot a vessel in any of
the rivers of this State, except the Patapsco and Potomac rivers,
or from any part of the Chesapeake bay north of Patapsco river,
to any other part of said bay north of said river.

ARTICLE LXXV.

PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS AT LAW.

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 suf- 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 over- ruled to be permitted without waiver of demurrer 9. For what defects judgment shall not be arrested. 10. As many several matters to be pleaded throughout the plead- ings as parties think necessary; departure.

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 prosecutions for libel. 16. Breaches in suits qn bond of clerks and registers, how to be sug- gested. 17 Plea non damnificatus not to be re- ceived in such suits. 18. Execution on forfeited recogni- zance. 19. Pleadings upon return of execution in such cases. 20. Payment of money into court, in what cases allowed. 21. Replications to plea of payment into court, further proceedings in such cases.