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Special defence, in a county Court. A defendant must give notice to the plaintiff when he intends to rely on a defence of set-off or counterclaim, infancy, coverture, statute of limitations, bankruptcy, or equitable defence. for example, he must specially plead the Statute of Frauds, and if he fails to do so in one action he may be estopped from doing so in a subsequent action, Humphries v. Humphries, (1910) 2 KB 531.