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Rejoinder
than a joinder of issue, may be pleaded without leave, except in Admiralty actions, and subject to this rule every pleading subsequent to reply must be delivered within four days after the delivery of the previous pleading.
Jurisdiction
and fast-track adjudicatory systems and permitting them to function by tearing off the conventional shackles of the strict rule of pleadings, strict rule of evidence, tardy trials, three/four-tier appeals, endless revisions and reviews - creating hurdles in the
Peremptory Rule
Peremptory Rule. Formerly a defendant might obtain a peremptory rule to declare within a certain time, absolute in the first … time, absolute in the first instance. This was abolished by (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 53, and a four-day notice substituted. See now PLEADING; STATEMENT OF DEFENCE.
Four way stop
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Forthwith
a defendant is ordered to plead forthwith, he must plead within twenty four hours. When a statute or rule of Court requires an act to be done 'forthwith,' it means that the act is to be done within
Notice of trial
given, unless the party to whom it is given has consented to take short notice; in which case four days are sufficient (rule 14).
Jointure
sole estate limited to the wife only. To a legal jointure these four things were requisite:- The old rules were: (1) The jointure must take effect immediately on the death of the husband. (2) It must be
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