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Claim in the action

or whether it is enough that it is a positive averment made by way of defence, J.F.S. (U.K.) Ltd. v. Dwr

Could and did

support of Government servants. It does not amount to an averment that, in fact, they so enlisted their support, Harish Chandra

Libel

a blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or immoral kind. As to the averment in an indictment for obscene libel, see R. v. Barraclough,

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Failing of record

plea matters of record in bar of the action, and avers to prove it by the record; but the plaintiff saith

To state

words; to set down or set forth in detail; to aver, allege, or declare. To set down in gross; to mention

Suit for land

for land' or not has to be determined on the averments in the plaint with reference to the reliefs claimed therein;

Scienter

wilfully). In an action of deceit, the scienter must be averred and proved. In case of injury to cattle and sheep

Quantum valebant

general, then quantum valebat lay, and the plaintiff was to aver them to be worth so much, as where the law

Preliminary objection

basis of the assumption of the truth of all the averments of facts made in the suit, or in the application

colloquium

part of a complaint for defamation in which the plaintiff avers that the defamatory remarks related to him or her

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