 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 866 pages
...Lit. 282. || 2 Sand. 5, b.|| See the stat. 7 Jac. 1, c. 5, which empowers justices of the peace, &c., to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence. i«(e) Watts v. Thomas, 2 Bibb, 453, and ante.tf If the defendant justifies the assault and battery,... | |
 | John Monson Carrow, J. Hamerton, T. Allen - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 766 pages
...(f) 2 Bing. 483. (n) 9 M. & W. 736. defendants. It was intended to facilitate pleading ; they were to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; ie, to shew that the conviction was a good conviction, to prove the special circumstances of the... | |
 | Charles Broadbelt Claydon - Landlord and tenant - 1847 - 524 pages
...chattels thereupon ; it shall and may be lawful to and for the defendant or defendants in such actions to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding : and in case the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such... | |
 | John Monson Carrow - Justices of the peace - 1847 - 834 pages
...M. & R. 662. (o) 12 A. & E. 470. defendants. It was intended to facilitate pleading; they 1845. were to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; ie, to 'shew that the conviction was a good conviction, to prove the special circumstances of the... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - Law - 1848 - 672 pages
...shall be sued for having done any act or thing by the command of any such officer, shall be permitted to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; and if any final judgment shall be rendered therein, whereby any such defendant shall he entitled... | |
 | Charles James Jones - Landlord and tenant - 1849 - 256 pages
...chattels thereupon, it shall and may be lawful to and for the defendant or defendants in such actions, to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding; and in case the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action... | |
 | John Simcoe Saunders - Civil procedure - 1851 - 776 pages
...pleaded together with special pleas (Legge v. Boyd, 1 Man. & G. 898). Where a statute enables defts. to plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence, the plea of not guilty, so pleaded, is not affected by the new rules of HT 4 Will. IV. but has the... | |
 | International law - 1851 - 462 pages
...explanation. 1 We notice, as another improvement, the abolition of the right of certain defendants to plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence, because this is an advance in the right direction, though we cannot conceive how such rules should... | |
 | Law - 1852 - 584 pages
...of the Bill the important clause which repealed so much of any Act of Parliament as entitled panics to plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence under that plea. The reasons which induced their lordships to come to this determination, are be accepted,... | |
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