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§56-4-1. Rule Days - In the clerk's office of every circuit court, rules shall...
§56-4-2. Rule Docket - There shall be a docket of the cases at rules...
§56-4-3. Rule Entries - Where rules are held on the last Monday in a...
§56-4-4. Continuance at Rules in Absence of Clerk - When there is no clerk to take a rule in...
§56-4-5. What Rules May Require - The rules may be to declare, plead, reply, rejoin, or...
§56-4-6. Time for Appearance; Rule to File Declaration; Nonsuit for Nonprosecution; Damages - A defendant may appear at the rule day at which...
§56-4-7. Dismissal for Failure to File Declaration or Bill - If three rules elapse after the rules at which the...
§56-4-8. Return to Show Defendant's Nonresidence; Abatement as to Nonresident Not Served - When a summons to a party to answer an action...
§56-4-9. Minors May Sue by Next Friend or Guardian; Substitution of Plaintiffs - Any minor entitled to sue may do so by his...
§56-4-10. Guardian Ad Litem - The proceedings in a suit wherein an infant or insane...
§56-4-11. Transfer of Cases From Law to Equity and Vice Versa - No case shall be dismissed simply because it was brought...
§56-4-12. Abatement for Want of Form in Declaration - No action shall abate for want of form, where the...
§56-4-13. Unnecessary Averments in Trespass on the Case - In actions of trespass on the case, where the action...
§56-4-14. Allegations of Place Where Contract Was Made or Act Done - It shall not be necessary in any declaration or other...
§56-4-15. Averments as to Jurisdiction; Profert; Oyer - It shall not be necessary in any action to aver...
§56-4-16. Allegations Not Traversable nor Requiring Proof - All allegations which are not traversable, and which the party...
§56-4-17. Form of Declaration or Count on Insurance Policy - A declaration or count on a policy of insurance, whether...
§56-4-18. Filing Account in Assumpsit - In every action of assumpsit the plaintiff shall file with...
§56-4-19. Statement of Particulars of Claim - In any action or motion, if good cause therefor be...
§56-4-20. Statement of Particulars of Defense - In like manner, if good cause therefor appear, and there...
§56-4-21. Plea in Action on Insurance Policy; Statement Specifying Particular Defense - To any declaration or county on a policy of insurance,...
§56-4-22. Same -- Joinder in Issue; Statement Specifying Matter in Waiver, Estoppel or Confession and Avoidance - Upon the plea mentioned in the next preceding section, the...
§56-4-23. Failure to File Statement; Insufficient Statement; Amendment; Exclusion of Evidence of Party in Default; Sufficiency of Statement - If either party to such action or motion fail to...
§56-4-24. Right to Amend in General - The plaintiff may of right amend his declaration or bill...
§56-4-25. Amended Declaration or Bill, Supplemental Bill or Bill of Revivor in Vacation - The plaintiff may also, at any time before or after...
§56-4-26. Amendment After Demurrer Is Sustained - If a demurrer be sustained to a declaration or bill,...
§56-4-27. Amendment to Cure Variance Between Pleading and Proof - If at the trial of any action or motion, there...
§56-4-28. Continuance and Costs After Amendment - If substantial amendment of any pleading is made, the court...
§56-4-29. Plea in Abatement -- Misnomer; Amendment Inserting Correct Name - No plea in abatement for a misnomer shall be allowed...
§56-4-30. Same -- Plea in Abatement for Defects in Writ or Return; Variance From Declaration; Void Process - In other cases, a defendant on whom process summoning him...
§56-4-31. Same -- Plea in Abatement for Want of Jurisdiction - Where the declaration or bill shows on its face proper...
§56-4-32. Same -- Verification of Plea in Abatement and of Non Est Factum; May Be Pleaded and Verified by Attorney or Agent of Defendant - No plea in abatement or plea of non est factum...
§56-4-33. Same -- Time for Filing Plea in Abatement - No plea in abatement shall be received after the defendant...
§56-4-34. Misjoinder and Nonjoinder of Parties - No action or suit shall abate or be defeated by...
§56-4-35. Verdict and Judgment as to Particular Defendants; Costs - If, in an action at law, to which one or...
§56-4-36. Scope of Demurrer; Objections to Filing of Pleadings for Insufficiency Abolished; Form, Grounds and Argument - The sufficiency of any pleading, in law or equity, may...
§56-4-37. Defects Disregarded on Demurrer - On a demurrer (unless it be to a plea in...
§56-4-38. Pleading in Abatement and in Bar at Same Time; Trial of Issues - The defendant may plead in abatement and in bar at...
§56-4-39. Pleading Several Defenses; Demurrer and Special Replications to Special Plea - The defendant in any action or suit may plead as...
§56-4-40. Commencement of Plea - No formal defense shall be required in a plea. It...
§56-4-41. Unnecessary Allegations in Pleas, etc. - In a plea, replication or subsequent pleading, intended to be...
§56-4-42. Omission of Protestation - No party shall be prejudiced by omitting a protestation in...
§56-4-43. Conclusion of Traverse - All special traverses or traverses with an inducement of affirmative...
§56-4-44. When Parties May Proceed Without Similiter or Joinder in Demurrer - When any party takes issue on another party's pleading, or...
§56-4-45. Unnecessary Allegations in Second or Other Plea - It shall not be necessary to state in a second...
§56-4-46. Pleading Denying Execution of Writing or Entry or Genuineness of Judgment or Decree - Where a declaration or other pleading alleges that any person...
§56-4-47. Plea Denying Partnership; Form of Denial of Corporate Existence - Where plaintiffs or defendants sue or are sued as partners,...
§56-4-48. Judgment or Decree by Confession - In any action or suit instituted by process a defendant...
§56-4-49. Failure to Plead, Answer or Demur; Rule to Plead; Conditional Judgment or Decree Nisi; Judgment or Decree by Default; Order for Inquiry of Damages - If a defendant, who appears, fail to plead, answer or...
§56-4-50. When Inquiry of Damages Unnecessary - There need be no such inquiry in any action upon...
§56-4-51. Office Judgment; Affidavits by Plaintiff and Defendant; Judgment - Every judgment entered in the clerk's office in a case...
§56-4-52. Setting Aside Office Judgment; Trial - If a defendant against whom a judgment is entered in...
§56-4-53. Hearing as to Defendants Served; Discontinuance - Where, in any action against two or more defendants, the...
§56-4-54. Form of Bill of Complaint - The plaintiff's bill may be in form or in substance...
§56-4-55. Jury Trial of Issue Upon Plea in Equity - A plaintiff in equity may take issue upon a plea,...
§56-4-56. Argument of Plea or Demurrer in Equity; Time to Answer After Demurrer Overruled; Proceeding on Default; Status of Answer Filed in Vacation - A plaintiff in equity may have any plea or demurrer...
§56-4-57. Time to Answer in General - A defendant may file his answer at any time before...
§56-4-58. Claim in Answer for Affirmative Relief; Special Reply - A defendant in a suit in equity may, in his...
§56-4-59. Answer Asking Affirmative Relief Equivalent to Crossbill - When a defendant in equity in his answer alleges new...
§56-4-60. Admissions in Equity by Failure to Deny - Every material allegation of the bill not controverted by an...
§56-4-61. Proof of Allegations Denied by Answer - When a defendant in equity shall, in his answer, deny...
§56-4-62. Verification of Pleadings in Equity - If the plaintiff desire the defendant to answer the bill...
§56-4-63. Appearance of Corporation by Attorney; Verification of Pleading of Corporation - Any corporation may appear, plead or answer by attorney in...
§56-4-64. Form of Verification of Pleading - The verification of any pleading may be by the pleader...
§56-4-65. Exceptions to Answers for Insufficiency Abolished; Test by Demurrer; Amended Answer; Procedure if Amended Answer Is Insufficient - Exceptions to answers for insufficiency are abolished. The test of...
§56-4-66. Attachment or Order to Answer Interrogatories - Although a bill be taken for confessed as to any...
§56-4-67. Insufficient Answer After Rule - If a defendant, after process of contempt, put in an...
§56-4-68. Setting Cause in Equity for Hearing - Whenever a suit in equity is matured at rules as...
§56-4-69. Hearing as to One Defendant; Rule to Mature Cause - If a suit in equity be set for hearing as...
§56-4-70. Control by Court Over Proceedings in Office During Vacation - The court shall have control over all proceedings in the...
§56-4-71. Pleadings and Proof in Actions on Bonds, Notes or Other Evidences of Debt Subject to Taxation - In every action at law, proceeding or suit in equity,...