 | Esek Cowen - Justices of the peace - 1821 - 804 pages
...NHL 436, s. 11) authorizing a defendant in any action to be brought, for any entry or distress. &C. to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence, a landlord cannot justify , except for acts done as landlord : for the act does not extend to any excess... | |
 | Ohio - Session laws - 1821 - 636 pages
...or his or her deli very out of prison; and in every such action it shall be lawful for the defendant to plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence. Elect This act «hall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of June next. EDWARD... | |
 | Charles Butler - Autobiography - 1822 - 706 pages
...year 1770, a bill was brought into the house of commons, for allowing defendants, in almost all cases, to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; the measure failed : its effect would have been to confine special pleading within very narrow limits... | |
 | William Woodfall - Landlord and tenant - 1822 - 722 pages
...amends have been made before the action brought : and by sect. 21. the defendant in such action may plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence. Under the plea of the general issue, given by this Act, a landlord cannot justify, except for acts done as... | |
 | Maine - 1822 - 802 pages
...thirteenth, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. — An act for giving liberty to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence, in certain cases. Passed February twenty-fifth in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.... | |
 | Sir Charles Harcourt Chambers - Landlord and tenant - 1823 - 1084 pages
...or disposal of any goods or chattels thereupon, it shall be lawful for the defendant in such action to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence. If the action be brought against a pound-keeper, he may prove that the goods were put into his custody... | |
 | Charles Butler - Law - 1824 - 476 pages
...year 1770, a bill was brought into the house of commons, for allowing defendants, in almost all cases, to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence; the measure failed : its effect would have been to confine special pleading within very narrow limits... | |
 | William Hawkins - Criminal procedure - 1824 - 838 pages
..." of this act, it shall and may be lawful to and for the person or " persons so sued or prosecuted to plead the general issue, and '' give the special matter in evidence ; and if a verdict shall pass " for the defendant, or the plaintiff shall become nonsuit, or suffer... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Dowling, Archer Ryland - Justices of the peace - 1826 - 596 pages
...The statutes 21 Jac. 1, c. 12, and 24 Geo. 2, c. 44, must be taken in pari materiS, as to magistrates being allowed to plead 'the general issue, and give...when acting in obedience to the warrant, for being 2 r2 1326. 550 1826. CASES IN THE KING'S BENCH, answerable on account of any defect or jurisdiction... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1827 - 668 pages
...authority, impose this virtual prohibition. Vide (continues he) the Statutes themselves.* the defendant to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; the delay and expense attached to special pleading has, by the literal import of the words, been... | |
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