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Dilatory pleas

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dilatory plea

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Plea

causes, and pleas of the Crown, relating to criminal prosecutions. At Common Law pleas were divided into: (1) Dilatory; which were subdivided into: (a) To the jurisdiction of the Court. (b) In suspension of the action, (c)

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Respondeat ouster

iv. 405. (let him make further answer) -- A judgment or order that a party who made a dilatory plea that has been denied must now plead on merits, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1313. Means … Respondeat ouster (let him answer over). If a demurrer is joined in a plea to the jurisdiction, person, or writ, etc., and it be judged that the defendant put in a more

Bar, plea in

defeating an action at Common Law. A plea in bar was therefore distinguished from all pleas of the dilatory class, as impugning the right of action altogether, instead of merely tending to divert the proceedings to another

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