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upon his country,' meaning that he intended to take the verdict of a jury upon the issue of fact; this was called 'going to the country.' It was the essential termination to a pleading which took issue

issue

b : a matter of dispute between two or more parties ;specif : a single material point of fact or law in litigation that is affirmed by one side and denied by the other and that is … issue is in dispute. issue of fact : a dispute about a material fact that is raised by pleadings and that must be resolved by a decision under the law in order to become res judicata issue

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Issue

pleading, within the proper time, the pleadings are to be deemed closed and all the material statements of fact in the pleading last delivered will be deemed to have been denied and put in issue, so that

Never Indebted, plea of

of debt on simple contract, and was resorted to when the defendant meant to deny in point of fact the existence of any express contract to the effect alleged in the declaration, or to deny the matters … Ord. XIX., r. 17, a defendant may not deny geneally the facts alleged by the plaintiff. See, further, PLEADING.

General issue

4, providing that every pleading shall contain, and contain only, a statement in a summary form of the facts on which the party pleading relies; and the particular form of pleading the general issue by pleading ''not

Question of fact

Matched in: Term Question of fact

Scandal

representations fraud and immorality, and the pleadings will not be open to the objection of scandal, if the facts justify the charge, Manual of Equity Pleading and Practice, Eugene A. Jones, 1916, p. 50.

Departure

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 the party pleading the same.' Departure with its grammatical variations and cognate

conclusion

something 3 : an opinion or judgment offered without supporting evidence ;specif : an allegation made in a pleading that is not based on facts set forth in the pleading … conclusion 1 : a judgment or opinion inferred from relevant facts [our upon the present evidence "Missouri v. Illinois, 200 U.S. 496 (1905)"] 2 a : a final summarizing

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