 | L. S. Le Vernois, Esten Kenneth Williams, Edward Betley Brown - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1130 pages
...was ordered that in actions on the case the plea of " not guilty " should operate only as a denial of the breach of duty or wrongful act alleged to have...the defendant, and not of the facts stated in the indictment, and that no other defence than such denial should be admissible under that plea. This Rule... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1052 pages
...term rule on that subject, including all of the examples given, is as follows: "In actions for torts, the plea of not guilty shall operate as a denial only...or wrongful act alleged to have been committed by defendant, and not of the facts stated in the Inducement, and no other defense than such denial shall... | |
 | Alberta. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 644 pages
...was ordered that in actions on the case the plea of '' not guilty " should operate only as a denial of the breach of duty or wrongful act alleged to have...the defendant, and not of the facts stated in the indictment, and HIM! no other defence than such denial should be admissible under that plea. This rule... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - Electrical engineering - 1910 - 1372 pages
...Circuit Court in common-law actions, in actions for torts, the plea of not guilty operates as a denial of the breach of duty or wrongful act alleged to have...of the facts stated in the inducement and no other defense than such denial is admissible under that plea. All other pleas in denial shall take issue... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1062 pages
...declaration was overruled, and trial was had on a plea of not guilty, which, under circuit court rule 71, "shall operate as a denial only of the breach of duty...or wrongful act alleged to have been committed by defendant, and not of the facts stated in the inducement, >and no other defense than such denial shall... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Martin L. Newell, Mason Harder Newell, Walter Clyde Jones, Keene Harwood Addington, Basil Jones, James Max Henderson, Ray Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 726 pages
...consideration by the court. He also refers and quotes from Chitty, which says : "In actions upon the case the plea of not. guilty shall operate as a denial...of the facts stated in the inducement, and no other defense than such denial shall be admissible under that plea and all matters in confession and avoidance... | |
 | John Jay McKelvey - Pleading - 1917 - 240 pages
...Case. ยง 233. The general issue, in actions on the case, takes the form of not guilty. It operates " as a denial only of the breach of duty or wrongful...defendant, and not of the facts stated in the inducement." The matters which form the inducement are those which show the plaintiff's right with respect to the... | |
 | Benjamin Jonson Shipman - Pleading - 1923 - 686 pages
...reason for slipshod pleading. By the Hilary Rules, the scope of the plea was limited, so that it should operate as a denial only of the breach of duty or...been committed by the defendant, and not of the facts derwood v. Parks, 2 Strange, 1200; Huson v. Dale, 10 Mich. 28, 2 Am. Rep. 66; Taylor v. Robinson, 29... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1926 - 498 pages
...pleaded. The plea of "nil debet" was abolished. In actions on the case the plea of " not guilty" was to operate as a denial only of the breach of duty or wrongful act alleged, and all other pleas in denial must be specially pleaded. Thus, in an action on the case for obstructing... | |
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In actions on the case, the plea of not guilty shall operate as a denial only of the breach of duty or wrongful act alleged to have been committed by the defendant, and not of the facts stated in the inducement... 
