| United States. Supreme Court - 1877 - 748 páginas
...pleading on the part of the plaintiff is the complaint, which shall contain, amongst other things, " a plain and concise statement of the facts constituting a cause of action without unnecessary repetition." Rev. Stat. 721. It provides that the defendant may demur for certain... | |
| North Carolina, Albion W. Tourgée - 1878 - 484 páginas
...trial is required to be had, and the names of the parties to the action, plaintiff and defendant. 2. A plain and concise statement of the facts constituting a cause of action, without unnecessary repetition ; and each material allegation shall be distinctly numbered. pleader.... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 884 páginas
...denominated a civil action ; and in the third section of article 6, page 1229, requiring in a petition "a plain and concise statement of the facts constituting a cause of action, without any unnecessary repetition." These sections have been retained in the subsequent revisions.... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1880 - 792 páginas
...sufficiency is to be determined, as prescribed in section 91 of the code. The complaint is required to contain a plain and concise statement of the facts constituting a cause of action without unnecessary repetition, and a demand of the relief to which the plaintiff supposes himself... | |
| 1883 - 1914 páginas
...The sufficiency of the pleadings is to be determined by the New York Code of Procedure. This requires a "plain and concise statement of the facts constituting a cause of action." Section 481. But the rule of pleading at common law was the same, viz., that facts, not mere conclusions... | |
| South Carolina, Robert A. Lynch - 1880 - 256 páginas
...desires the trial to be had, and the names of the parties to the action — plaintiff and defendant; 2. A plain and concise statement of the facts constituting a cause of action, without unnecessary repetition; :?. A demand of the relief to which the plaintiff supposes himself... | |
| 1880 - 556 páginas
...following is Chief Justice Ryan's "paradise of doubt and ambiguity " : "The complaint must contaiu ' a plain and concise statement of the facts, constituting a cause of action, without unnecessary repetition.' The answer, in addition to denials, may set up counter-claims ' in... | |
| Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1882 - 736 páginas
...statement of the facts constituting the cause of action" (Gen. St., 701, § 13), and in the latter " a plain and concise statement of the facts constituting a cause of action." Gen. St., 658, § 3. A party sued before a justice is as much entitled to be informed of the ground... | |
| John Bouvier - 1882 - 812 páginas
...desires the trial to be had, and the names of the parties to the action, plaintiff and defendant. 2. A plain and concise statement of the facts constituting a cause of action, without unnecessary repetition. 3. A demand of the relief to which the plaintiff supposes himself entitled.... | |
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