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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

TITLE THIRD.

RULES WHICH MAKE THE ISSUE A SIN-
GLE ONE.

May be com

billed.

124. Any number of facts constituting one cause
of action, or one defence, or one reply, or any other
pleading, may be combined; but each cause of ac-
tion, and each defence, and each reply, shall be stated
in a separate paragraph, and shall be numbered.

Defective
pleading to be
corrected.

125. If each cause of action, or each defence, or
each reply, or other pleading shall not be stated in a
separate paragraph and numbered, the Court, or the
Judge, at any time after such pleading is filed, and
before it is pleaded to, may, upon suggestion in wri-
ting filed in the cause, stating such defect in the
pleading, and a copy of the suggestion being served
upon the party so pleading defectively or his attor-
ney, order the defective pleading to be corrected at
the costs of the party so pleading defectively. But
if the opposite party plead to such defective pleading,
such formal defect shall thereby be cured.

TITLE FOURTH.

OF JUDGMENT.

May be awar-
ded.

126. In all action where the plaintiff recovers a
sum of money, the amount to which he is entitled
may be awarded to him by the judgment generally,
without any distinction being therein made as to
whether such sum is recovered by way of debt or
damages.

Form of judg-
ment.

127. The form of all judgments shall be merely a
statement, in common language, of the award of the
Court, without regard to the forms of action here-
tofore existing.

JUDGMENT NON OBSTANTE VEREDICTO.

When not en-
titled to judg-
ment upon the
merits.

128. Whenever the plea is such as to show to the
Court, that the defendant is not entitled to judgment
upon the merits, and the issue joined thereon be
found for the defendant, judgment shall be given for
the plaintiff non obstante veredicto.