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To bring into debt to place under obligation chiefly used in the participle indebted...
Never Indebted, plea of
Never Indebted, plea of, a species of traverse which occurred in actions 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 of facts from which such contract would bylaw be implied, Steph. Plead., 7th ed. 153, 156. By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 17, a defendant may not deny geneally the facts alleged by the plaintiff. See, further, PLEADING....
Beholden
Obliged bound in gratitude indebted...
Debted
Indebted obliged to...
Debtor
One who owes a debt one who is indebted correlative to creditor...
Indebted
Brought into debt being under obligation held to payment or requital beholden...
Indebtedness
The state of being indebted...
Indebtment
Indebtedness...
Concessit solvere
Concessit solvere (he agreed to pay), an action of debt upon a simple contract. It lies by custom in the Mayor's Court, London, and Bristol Tolzey Court. The defence to a count sur concessit solvere was 'never indebted.' See Glyn and Jackson, Mayor's Court Practice....
Distributive finding of the issue
Distributive finding of the issue. The jury are bound to give their verdict for that party who, upon the evidence, appears to them to have succeeded in establishing his side of the issue. But there are cases in which an issue may be found distributively; i.e., in part for plaintiff and in part for defendant. Thus, in an action for goods sold and work done, if the defendant pleaded that he never was indebted, on which issue was joined a verdict might be found for the plaintiff as to the goods, and for the defendant as to the work...
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