424 CHANCERY. [ART. 16
tion, or other writ, or any special order, be required, pending
the suit, it shall be specially prayed for; the several subjects
of the prayer being formed into distinct paragraphs, and con-
secutively numbered. The ordinary or formal combination
clause, the allegations of the want of remedy at law, and
similar formal averments shall be omitted; nor shall it be
necessary to pray that the defendants be required to answer,
unless it be desired that they shall answer under oath, or there
be special interrogatories appended to the bill to be answered
by the defendants or some of them, in which cases, there shall
be a prayer that the defendant or defendants be required to
answer the bill, or the special interrogatories appended thereto,
under oath.
1888, art. 16, sec. 134. Rule 16.
147. The prayer for process or for order of publication shall
contain the names of all the defendants named in the introduc-
tory' part of the bill or petition, and the place of their residence,
as far as known; and if any of said defendants are known to be
infants under age, or under any other disability, such fact shall
be stated, so that the court may take order thereon, as justice
may require. And if an injunction or other writ, or any special
order be asked in the prayer for relief, that shall be sufficient,
without repeating the same in the prayer for process.
Ibid. sec. 135. Rule 17.
148. At any time before the bill is taken pro confesso, or
afterwards, (before final decree,) by the special leave of the
court or judge thereof, the defendant may answer, plead or
demur to the bill; and he may plead or demur to the whole bill,
or to part thereof, and he may demur -to part, plead to part,
and answer as to the residue; but in every case in which the
bill specially charges fraud, usury or combination, a plea to
such part must be accompanied with an answer supporting th'e
plea, and explicitly denying the fraud, usury or combination,
and the facts on which the charge is founded.
Belt v. Bowie, 65 Md. 350. Frederick Co. v. Frederick City, 88 Md. 662
Ibid. sec. 136. Rule 18.
149. No plea or demurrer shall be allowed to be filed to any
bill or petition, unless it be supported by affidavit that it is not
intended for delay; and if a plea, that it is true in point of fact.
The form of demurrers shall be substantially as follows : " The
defendant demurs to the whole bill," or "to so much of the
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