Tag: equity pleading

  • Supplemental Bill

    In equity practice. A bill brought as an addition to an original bill to supply some defect in its original frame or structure which cannot be supplied by amendment. See 1 Paige Ch. (N. Y.) 200; 15 Miss. 456; 22 Barb. (N. Y.) 161; 14 Ala. (N. S.) 147; 18 Ala. (N. S.) 771. It…

  • Supplemental Bill

    In equity practice. A bill brought as an addition to an original bill to supply some defect in its original frame or structure which cannot be supplied by amendment. See 1 Paige Ch. (N. Y.) 200; 15 Miss. 456; 22 Barb. (N. Y.) 161; 14 Ala. (N. S.) 147; 18 Ala. (N. S.) 771. It…

  • Premises

    In strict technical sense, the term as applied to a deed means all the foreparts of the deed preceding the habendum and includes the date of the instrument , the parties to the same, the preliminary recitals , the consideration and the grant , release or other operative […]

  • Premises

    In strict technical sense, the term as applied to a deed means all the foreparts of the deed preceding the habendum and includes the date of the instrument , the parties to the same, the preliminary recitals , the consideration and the grant , release or other operative […]

  • Multifariousness

    In equity pleading. The demand in one bill of several matters of a distinct and independent nature against several defendants. Cooper, Eq. PI. 182; 18 Ves. 80; 2 Mason (U. S.) 201; 4 Cow. (N. Y.) 682; 2 Gray (Mass.) 467. The uniting in one bill against a single defendant several matters […]

  • Pure Plea

    In equity pleading. One which relies wholly on some matter dehors the bill; as, for example, a plea of a release on a settled account. Pleas not pure are so called in contradistinction to pure pleas. They are sometimes also denominated negative pleas. 4 Bouv. Inst, note […]

  • Confederacy

    Confederacy

    In international law , the association of two or more nations for their mutual advantage and protection. In criminal law, denotes a conspiracy .

  • Confederacy

    Confederacy

    In international law , the association of two or more nations for their mutual advantage and protection. In criminal law, denotes a conspiracy .

  • Impertinent Matter

    Impertinent Matter

  • Scandalous Matter

    In equity pleading. Unnecessary matter criminatory of the defendant or any other person, alleged in the bill answer, or other pleading, or in the interrogatories to or answers by witnesses. Adams, Eq. 306. Matter which is relevant can never be scandalous (Story, Eq. PI. § 270, 15 […]