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amended pleading
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Amendment
once without leave, and the defendant similarly to amend a counterclaim or set-off. But a defence cannot be amended without leave unless the plaintiff has amended his statement of claim. 2. Proceedings in County Courts. Ample powers … Amendment, a correction of any errors in the writ or pleadings in actions, suits, or prosecutions. The power of allowing amendments has been much extended by modern statutes and
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Departure
16, it is ordered that 'no pleading, not being a petition or summons, shall, except by way of amendment, raise any new ground of claim or contain any allegation of fact inconsistent with the previous pleadings of
Beau-pleader
596. It used to be had as well in respect of vicious as fair pleading by way of amendment-2 Inst. 122.
Public Authorities, Protection of
short limit of time, by enabling defendants to plead the general issue (see GENERAL ISSUE) and to tender amends and by enacting that the plaintiff if unsuccessful should pay double or treble costs. These varying enactments were … arose, by requiring him to bring his action within a short limit of time, by enabling defendants to plead the general issue (see GENERAL ISSUE) and to tender amends and by enacting that the plaintiff if unsuccessful
Variance
thereof. See Stephen on Pleading. The Courts are now very liberal in permitting variances in proceedings to be amended, especially where parties will suffer no prejudice. See AMENDMENT. A difference or disparity between two statements or documents
Argumentative
Ord. XIX., r. 27, where pleadings prejudice, embarrass, or delay fair trial, they may be struck out or amended, and by R. S. C. Ord. XXXVIII., r. 3, the costs of an affidavit unnecessarily setting forth argumentative … Argumentative. A pleading in which the statement on which the pleader relies is implied instead of being expressed, is argumentative. As
amendment
: an act of amending ;esp : an alteration in wording [s to cure the defect in the pleading] 2 : an alteration proposed or put into effect by legislative or constitutional procedure [the Congress…shall propose s … amendment 1 : an act of amending ;esp : an alteration in wording [s to cure the defect in
Amends, tender of
These are repealed by the (English) Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893, which provides, amongst other things, for the pleading of tender of amends, and for taxation of the defendant's costs between solicitor and client in event of … Amends, tender of, was by many particular statutes made a defence in an action for a wrong, especially in
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