182 CHANCERY—PLEADING, PRACTICE, PROCESS. [ART. 16.

the bill dismissed. The form of the general replication shall be
as follows: "The plaintiff joins issue on the matters alleged in
the answer of C. D, so far as the same may be taken to deny or
avoid the allegations of the bill.

Rule 29.

149. No special replication to any answer shall be filed. But,
if any matter alleged in the answer shall make it necessary for
the plaintiff to amend his bill, he may obtain leave to amend the
same, upon application to the court or judge thereof, within such,
time and upon such terms as may be prescribed by order.

Rule 30.

150. If the plaintiff, so obtaining any order to amend his bill
after answer, or after plea or demurrer thereto, shall not make
the amendment within the time allowed, he shall be considered
to have abandoned the leave to amend, and the cause shall
proceed as if no application for such leave had been made. But
where such amendment is made, and new facts are introduced
and the case is. thus varied in any material respect, the defendant
shall be at liberty to. answer anew, or to plead, or demur to the-
bill as amended, within such time as, the court or judge thereof
may prescribe, after notice of the amendment made; and notice
may, in all cases, be given by service of a copy of the bill as,
amended, upon the defendant, or upon, his solicitor, if there be
one; or it may be by subpoena. The mode of proceeding in
default of answer to the matter of the amendment shall be the
same as that in default of answer to the original bill; and the
proceeding on answer, plea or demurrer, filed to the amended
bill, shall be the same as, that on answer, plea, or demurrer to an
original blll.

P. G. L.. (1860,) art. 16, sec. 104. 1785, ch. 72, sec. 22.

151. In order to enforce obedience to the process, rules and
orders of the courts of equity, in all cases where any party or per-
son shall be in contempt, for disobedience, non-performance or
non-observance of any process, rule or order of the court, or for
any other matter or thing whatsoever, whereby or wherein a con-
tempt, according to the- rules, law, practice or course of the said