 | Law - 1869 - 392 pages
...are no interrogatories: but the Code §149 requires that the answer of the defendant shall contain " a general or specific denial of each material allegation...information thereof sufficient to form a belief." This provision appears to be intended as a sort of statutory substitute for interrogatories. It is... | |
 | New York (State), John Townshend - Civil procedure - 1870 - 896 pages
...(Am'd 1849, 1851, 1852.) Answer, what to Contain. The answer of the defendant must contain, — 1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation...statement of any new matter constituting a defense or counter-claim, in ordinary and concise language, without repetition. 1. Answer. — The answer is not... | |
 | Law - 1889 - 546 pages
...of Civil Procedure of New York, section 500, subdivision 1, declaring that the answer must contain " a general or specific denial of each material allegation...or information thereof sufficient to form a belief; " and in view of the provisions of section 524, that the denials in a pleading, "unless they are herein... | |
 | Civil procedure - 1870 - 378 pages
...belief. 3. Some as in 1848. § 149. (As am'd in 1851.) The answer of the defendant must contain : 1. A specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, according to his knowledge, information or belief, or of any knowledge or information thereof sufficient... | |
 | New York (State), William Wait - Civil procedure - 1871 - 1034 pages
...[128.] (Am'd, 1849, 1851, 1852.) Answer ; what to contain. The answer of the defendant must contain : 1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation...statement of any new matter constituting a defense or counterclaim, in ordinary and concise language, without repetition. I. WHAT CONSTITUTES AN ANSWER.... | |
 | William Wait - Civil procedure - 1873 - 950 pages
...denied. a. In general. The Code provides that the answer of the defendant may contain a general or a specific denial of each material allegation of the...or information thereof sufficient to form a belief. Code, § 149. The Code thus authorizes either of three forms of a denial of the allegations of a complaint.... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 692 pages
...allegation of the complaint controverted by the defendant, a general or specific denial thereof, etc. ; 2d, a statement of any new matter constituting a defense...counter claim, in ordinary and concise language." Now, according to the common law practice, a defendant might plead in assumpsit the general issue,... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Actions and defenses - 1876 - 924 pages
...contain, 1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint [or petition] controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge...belief; 2. A statement of any new matter constituting a defence or counterclaim [or set-off] in ordinary and concise language, without repetition." 1 In a... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1876 - 578 pages
...shall be verified as above provided for the verification of the complaint, and shall contain, first, a general or specific denial of each material allegation...controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge or infoniiation sufficient to form a belief. Second, a plain statement of any new matter constituting... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Actions and defenses - 1876 - 908 pages
...contain, 1. A general or specific denial of each material allegation of the complaint [or petition] controverted by the defendant, or of any knowledge...thereof sufficient to form a belief; 2. A statement of an}' new matter constituting a defence or counterclaim [or set-off ] in ordinary and concise language,... | |
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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; 2. A statement of any new matter... 
