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| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1852 - 576 pages
...facts constituting the cause of action are now to be stated in the complaint; and the answer is to contain a general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, &c. There is no longer any general issue in the sense and contemplation... | |
| Henry Whittaker - Civil procedure - 1852 - 900 pages
...prescribed by the Code, in sees. 149 and 150 : § 149. The answer of the defendant must contain, 1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint, controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief.... | |
| New York (State) - Civil procedure - 1852 - 606 pages
...(Amended 1849, 1S51, 1852.) Answer, wTiat to contain. — The answer of the defendant must contain : 1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief;... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1853 - 594 pages
...W. TOMPKINS, for Plaintiff. JOHN W. MILLS, County Judge. — By section 149 of the Code of 1852, an answer must contain a general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint intended to be controverted by the defendant, and if the defendant has a defence or a counter-claim,... | |
| New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners - Railroads - 1907 - 796 pages
...notice with proof of service thereof, an owner of the property may appear and interpose an answer, which must contain a general or specific denial of each material allegation of the petition controverted by him, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief,... | |
| Civil procedure - 1857 - 610 pages
...1I 171, 5 Ib. 321, 6 1b. 321, 11 1b. 477, 14 Barb., 393). Section 149 of the Code Leach a. Coynton. provides, that the answer must contain, " A general...denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief."... | |
| Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1858 - 610 pages
...to a common intent." 2. This is good under section 149 of the Code, — which requires the answer to contain " a general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint, controverted by defendant." A general denial need not be of every allegation in the complaint, but... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1860 - 616 pages
...The defendant insists that the answer in this case is fully authorized by § 149 of the Code, which provides, that the answer must contain " a general...denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief;"... | |
| Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 774 pages
...too must not embrace matters which, though pertinent as evidence, would not be so as pleading, but "must contain a general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief,"... | |
| Henry Whittaker - Civil procedure - 1863 - 1154 pages
...but which it will be convenient to repeat : j5 149. The answer of the defendant must contain — 1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief;... | |
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