Tag: pleading

  • Defence

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Defence Meaning of Defence A pleading delivered in an action in the High Court in reply to the statement of claim. It answers the allegations in the statement of claim by admissions or denials, and may […]

  • Defence

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Defence Meaning of Defence A pleading delivered in an action in the High Court in reply to the statement of claim. It answers the allegations in the statement of claim by admissions or denials, and may […]

  • Amendment

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Amendment (You may find amendment at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). early 13c., “betterment, improvement;” c. 1300, of persons, “correction, reformation,” from Old French amendement […]

  • Non Culpabills

    Non Culpabills

  • Non Culpabills

    Non Culpabills

  • Departure

    In pleading , a departure is said to exist where a party quits or departs from the case or defense which he has first made, and has recourse to another. warren v Powers, 5 Conn. 373. Where a departure relates to material averments the court is entitled to ignore the pleading that […]

  • Departure

    In pleading , a departure is said to exist where a party quits or departs from the case or defense which he has first made, and has recourse to another. warren v Powers, 5 Conn. 373. Where a departure relates to material averments the court is entitled to ignore the pleading that […]

  • Answer

    Answer in the law of the United StatesAnswer: Related U.S. ResourcesAnswer in the American Law Encyclopediahttp://lawi.us/tag/civil-judicial-process/ title=Civil Judicial Process&q…

  • Answer

    Answer in the law of the United StatesAnswer: Related U.S. ResourcesAnswer in the American Law Encyclopediahttp://lawi.us/tag/civil-judicial-process/ title=Civil Judicial Process&q…

  • In Nullo Est Erratum

    (Lat.) In pleading. A plea to errors assigned on proceedings in error, by which the defendant in error affirms there is no error in the record. As to the effect of such plea, see 1 Vent. 252; 1 Strange, 684; 9 Mass. 532; 1 Burrows, 410; T. Raym. 231. It is a general rule that…

  • Severance

    The act of severing. partition . Division. In relation to joint tenancy , it is the destruction of the unities essential for the formation and continuance of joint tenancy .

  • Severance

    The act of severing. partition . Division. In relation to joint tenancy , it is the destruction of the unities essential for the formation and continuance of joint tenancy .

  • Special Damages

    Such damages as arise from special circumstances of the case which, if properly pleaded, may be added to the general damages . while general damages are those that naturally and necessarily result from the act complained of, special damages are those that naturally but not necessarily […]

  • Special Damages

    Such damages as arise from special circumstances of the case which, if properly pleaded, may be added to the general damages . while general damages are those that naturally and necessarily result from the act complained of, special damages are those that naturally but not necessarily […]

  • Duplicity

    The technical fault of combining two or more offenses in the same count of an indictment . The rule is that each count in an indictment should refer to a single transaction and where the count refers to more than one transaction, it is bad for duplicity. See U.S. v Gerhart, […]