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pleading
pleading 1 a : one of the formal declarations (as a complaint or answer) exchanged by the parties in a legal proceeding (as a suit) setting forth claims, averments, allegations, denials, or defenses ;also : a written document embodying such a declaration see also relation back b : any of the allegations, averments, claims, denials, or defenses set forth in a pleading alternative pleading : a pleading that sets out an alternative theory in support of a plaintiff's claim for relief or a defendant's defense amended pleading : a pleading that is filed to replace an original pleading and that contains matters omitted from or not known at the time of the original pleading re·spon·sive pleading [ri-spÄ n-siv-] : a pleading that directly responds to another pleading (as by denying in an answer allegations in a complaint) sham pleading : a pleading that is factually false, is not made in good faith, and that may be struck supplemental pleading : a pleading that supplem...
Material facts and material particulars
Material facts and material particulars, all those facts which are essential to clothe the petitioner with a complete cause of action, are 'material facts' which must be pleaded, and failure to plead even a single material fact amounts to disobedience of the mandate of s. 83(1)(a) of Representation of the People Act. 'Particulars', on the other hand, are 'the details of the case set up by the party'. 'Material particulars' within contemplation of cl. (b) of s. 83(1) of RPA, 1951 would therefore mean all the details which are necessary to amplify, refine and embellish the material facts already pleaded in the petition in compliance with the requirements of cl. (a), Shri Udhav Singh v. Madhav Rao Scindia, AIR 1976 SC 744: (1977) 1 SCC 511: (1976) 2 SCR 246.Distinction between 'material facts' and 'particulars'. The word 'material' in material facts under s. 83 of the Act means facts necessary for the purpose of formulating a complete cause of action; and if any one 'material' fact is omi...
plead
plead plead·ed or: pled also: plead [pled] plead·ing [Anglo-French plaider to argue in a court of law, from Old French plaid legal action, trial more at plea ] vi 1 : to make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding ;esp : to answer the pleading or charge of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts [the defendant shall be given a copy of the indictment or information before the defendant is called upon to "Kansas Statutes Annotated"] see also alternative 2 : to make a specific plea [ not guilty] ;also : to make a plea of guilty [agreed to to the lesser charge] vt 1 : to allege in or by way of a pleading : state in a pleading [unless plaintiff s and proves facts showing actual malice, he cannot recover punitive damages "Kumaran v. Brotman, 617 N.E.2d 191 (1993)"] [ a case of fraudulent conveyance] 2 : to offer as an excuse [cannot ignorance of the law] plead·able adj plead·er n ...
Pleading
Pleading. 1. In its general sense, the proceedings from the statement of claim to issue joined, i.e., the opposing statements of the parties. 2. Any part of these proceedings.The science of pleading was no doubt derived from Normandy. The use of stated forms of pleading is not to be traced among the Anglo-Saxons. Pleading was cultivated as a science in the reign of Edward I. The object of pleading is to ascertain, by the production of an issue, the subject for decision. Before the Judicature Acts, pleading under the Judicature Act is intended to combine the advantages of the two systems; it being provided by R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., Rule 4, that 'every pleading shall contain, and contain only, a statement in a summary form of the material facts on which the party pleading relies; but not the evidence by which they are to be proved,' and 'shall, when necessary, be divided into paragraphs numbered consecutively.' Consult Bullen and Leake, or Odgers on Pleading.A pleading has to be read as...
Question of fact
Question of fact, is one capable of being answered by way of demonstration, a question of opinion is one that cannot be so answered. The answer to it is a matter of speculation which cannot be proved by any available evidence to be right or wrong. The past history of a company's business is a matter of fact, but its prospects of successful business in the future is a matter of opinion, Salmond on Jurisprudence, 12th Edn., p. 69: AIR 1994 SC 678.Means an issue that has not been predetermined and authoritatively answered by the law. An example is whether a particular criminal defendant is guilty of an offense or whether a contractor has delayed unreasonably in constructing a building, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1260.Question of fact might be stated in an issue without pleadings by consent (C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 42), and may now be so stated under (English) R.S.C. Ord. XXXIV, r. 9.In general when a jury is sworn it decides all the issues of fact; but if there arise in the course ...
Joinder in pleading
Joinder in pleading, accepting the issue and mode of trial tendered, either by demurrer, error, or issue in fact, by the opposite party. See now ISSUE....
Double pleading
Double pleading. This was not allowed either in the declaration or subsequent pleadings. Its meaning with respect to the former was, that the declaration must not, in support of a single demand, allege several distinct matters, by any one of which that demand is sufficiently supported. With respect to the subsequent pleadings, the meaning was that none of them was to contain several distinct answers to that which preceded it; and the reason of the rule in each case was, that such pleading tended to several issues in respect of a single claim. See Steph. Plead., pp. 313 et seq...
Oral pleading
Oral pleading, pleadings by word of mouth in presence of the judges. This was the original mode of pleading; it was, however, except in criminal cases, superseded by written pleadings in the reign of Edward III. see Odgers on Pleading....
Special pleading
Special pleading, the science of pleading. It is a forensic invention, due to the dialectic genius of the Middle Ages, but nearly destroyed by modern innovation. See Steph. On Plead.; Bullen and Leake's Prec. of Pleadings; and Chitty's Precedents. See PLEADING....
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