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Particulars
of Court under those Acts have substituted a statement of claim containing the material facts on which the plaintiff relied for the declaration under the old practice, which only contained a legal statement of the plaintiff's cause … Particulars. The courts have a general jurisdiction, independently of statute, to order a detailed statement of the demand in
Peace, Bill of
needless litigation, and protection from a multiplicity of suits, either by establishing and perpetuating a right which the plaintiff claimed and which, from its nature, might be controverted by different persons at different times and by different
Plaint
in an inferior court in the nature of an original writ, because there is briefly set forth the plaintiff's cause of action: and the judge is bound, of common right, to administer justice therein without a special
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Schoolmaster
and battery the defendant pleaded that he was the headmaster of a school or college, of which the plaintiff was a pupil, and that the plaintiff combined with other pupils for purposes subversive of the discipline of
Re-traxit
Re-traxit, means 'he has withdrawn'. A plaintiff's voluntary withdrawal of a lawsuit in court so that the plaintiff forfeits the right of action. In modern
Relating to
suit in which the grievance is made that the defendant is threatening to illegally recover possession from the plaintiff-licensee. Suits for protecting such possession of immovable property against the alleged illegal attempts on the part of the
Relicta verificatione
withdraw it by entering a relicta verificatione, upon which he would not have to pay costs until the plaintiff obtained judgment in the action; but by Reg. Gen. H.T. 1853, r. 8, 'a defendant shall not be
Remittitur damnum
Remittitur damnum. Where a jury gave greater damages than a plaintiff had declared for, the mistake might be rectified by entering a remittitur for the excess; or, if a
Inquiry, writ of
the venue is laid, stating the proceedings in an action, and 'because it is unknown what damages the plaintiff has sustained,' commanding the sheriff that, by the oath of twelve men of his county, he diligently inquire
Second deliverance, Writ of
Second deliverance, Writ of, a judicial writ that lies, after a non suit of the plaintiff in replevin, and a retorno habendo of the cattle replevied, adjudged to him that distrained them, commanding the
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