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Definition :

Insufficiency, an answer in Chancery was said to be insufficient when it did not specially reply to the specific charges in the bill.

If a plaintiff conceived an answer to be insufficient, he might take exception to it in writing, stating the parts of the bill which he alleged were not answered, and praying that the defendant might

in such respect file a further and full answer to

the bill. Scandal and impertinence in an answer must have been disposed of before its sufficiency could be considered. See INTERROGATORIES; and Dan.Ch. Pr.