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Plete
To plead
Placitare
Placitare, to plead.
Replead
To plead again
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General issue
to money counts, or 'nunquam assumpsit' to actions on simple contract (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, Sched. B, 37). Pleading the general issue was abolished by the (English) Judicature Acts, R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 4, providing that
Issue
or fines. (3) Event, consequence, evacuation, sending forth. (4) The point in question, as the conclusion of the pleadings between contending parties in an action, when one side affirms and the other denies. It is provided by
Demurrer
Demurrer [fr. demoror, Lat.; or demorrer, Fr., to wait or stay], a pleading which admits the facts as stated in the pleading of the opponent, and referring the law arising thereon
Traverse
Traverse, means a formal detail of a factual allegations made in the opposing party's pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1406. Traverse, the denial of some matter of fact alleged in a
Going to the Country
Going to the Country. When a party, under the system of pleading before the Common Law Procedure Act, finished his pleading by the words, 'and of this he puts himself
Departure
Departure [fr. decessus, Lat.], in pleading, when a party deserts the ground that he took in his last antecedent pleading and resorts to another.
Record
merged in the Central Office there. See (English) R.S.C. Ord. LXI. Also the general name given to (a) pleadings and subsequent orders and recorded matters in an action (by R. S. C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI. R. 30,
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