Object of plea, 216. What constitutes a good plea, 216. Plea to the jurisdiction, 218.
To the person, 219. Pleas in bar, 220. How decree pleaded, 221. Plea of another
suit depending, 222. Pleas in bar of matters in pais, 224. Pleas to bill of discovery
only, 227. Negative plea, 228. Plea and answer, 228. When a defendant may plead,
230. Plea how prepared, 230. When plea put in on oath, 231. How sworn, and
filed, and proceeded with, 232. If plea replied to, 233. What pleas require to be set
down, 234. How set down, 235. If allowed or overruled, 237. Amendment of
plea, 238. Effect of plea on other proceedings, 239.
241-274
Defendant may answer by a separate solicitor, 241. Where costs of separate answers
disallowed, 242. Office copy bill, 242. Instructions for answer, how answer pre-
pared and intituled, 243. And sworn, 244. How taken by dedimus, 247. Separate
answer of a wife, 253. Answer of an infant, 254. How guardian assigned to infant,
255. Where infant abroad, 256. By special dedimus, 258. Answer of lunatic or
person of unsound mind, 260. Of a prisoner who is a lunatic, idiot, or of unsound
mind, 262. Answer of a Quaker, 263. Of a corporate body, 263. Of defendant
residing abroad, 264. Of foreigner residing in England unable to speak English, 265.
Answer without oath or signature, 266. When answer taken off the file, 268. When
defendant allowed to file a supplemental answer, 269. Evidence for and against
answer, and effect of admission in an answer, 272. To take examination of a defen-
dant after a third answer reported insufficient, 274.
Where answer considered insufficient, 278. Exceptions for insufficiency, 279. When
plaintiff cannot except, 280. Time allowed to except, 280. How exceptions are pre-
pared and proceeded with, 281. Submission to answer exceptions, 282. Reference
of exceptions, 282. Exceptions to a second or third answer, 285. Exceptions to
further answer after report of insufficiency and bill has been amended, 285. When
an answer is to be deemed sufficient, 286. Exceptions to Master's report of insuffi
ciency, 288. Costs of exceptions, 290.
Or an information, 296. Order to amend, how obtained, 296. Time allowed to
amend as of course, 297. On special application, 299. Application to the Master to
amend, 300. Costs of amendment, 301. When costs in the cause, 303. Effect of
receiving costs of amendment, 304. Effect of amendment on other proceedings, 305.
On process of contempt, and on common injunction, 305. On special injunction, and
on ne exeat regno, 306. After examination, 306. On exceptions for insufficiency,
307. To enforce appearance to amended bill, 309. Proceedings on the part of a
defendant as to an amended bill, 310.
Dismission of a bill by a plaintiff, 312. Upon what terms, 313. By a defendant before
answer, 314. After answer, 316. Proceedings by a plaintiff to prevent a defendant
dismissing, 320. Undertaking to speed, 321. Dismission by defendant after repli-
cation, 322. Dismission under the old practice, 325. In what cases a defendant is
prevented from moving to dismiss, 326. If in contempt or after abatement, 326.
Effect of bankruptcy of plaintiff, 327. Of a defendant, 328. Dismission by defend-
ant after order to revive, 329. After bill of revivor where no order to revive served,
329. Dismission after an amendment, 331. How suits were dismissed before order
of 1828, 332. Effect of dismissing a bill, 334.
Evidence how taken, 339. Answer when evidence, 339. Effect of replication upon
answer, 340. Part of a passage from an answer cannot be read, 340. Depositions,
341. Competency and credibility of witness, 341. Who may be examined, and to
what points, 343. Not a plaintiff, 343. A defendant may be examined, 344. Where
attorney may be examined, 345. Where member of a corporation, 345. Evidence,
to what points confined, 346. Evidence in support of a will, 346. Documentary
evidence, 347. Bill taken pro confesso when evidence, 351.
Within what distance from London a commission may be executed, 361. Order for
commission, 361. Joining and striking commissioners' names, 362. Only one
commissioner should attend for a party who only cross-examines, 363. When com-
mission sealed ex parte, 363. Return of commission, 363. Execution of, 364. How
commission opened, 366. When interrogatories required to be left, 366. Oath of
commissioners, 367. Oath of clerk, 367. If a commissioner or the clerk is examined
as a witness, 368. Depositions how taken, 368. Adjournment of commission, 369.
How depositions returned, 369. Commissioners are to judge what is evidence, but not
of pertinence of interrogatories, 370. Expense of executing commission by whom
borne, 370. Cross-examination of witnesses, 371. When cross-interrogatories re-
quired to be left, 371. When defendant entitled to a commission, 372.
When necessary to limit a time in a decree or order, 430. Where personal demand
or by attorney is required, 430. Attachment for non-performance of an order, 431.
Proceedings upon attachment, 431. Sequestration, 432. Origin of writ, 433.
Granted against a defendant in Ireland, 434. Nature and effect of sequestration,
434. Sequestrators, powers and duties, 434. Effect of sequestration on a purchaser
pendente lite, 435. Fees to sequestrators, 436. When a sequestration abates or
determines, 437. Remedy where levy under sequestration insufficient, 438. To
enforce decrees and orders against persons having privilege of peerage, or of parlia
ment, 440. Against persons not parties on record, 440. Against a married woman,
442. Against a corporation, 443. Under 1 Will. 4, c. 36, 443. Remedy where a
party cannot be served, 444. When the clerk in court of a party is dead, 446. Per-
sons issuing or executing process are not to be sued at law, 447. Writ of assistance,
447.
By subpoena, 453. And attachment, 454. Against a peer or member of parliament,
or a corporation, 455. Against one not a party, 455. Proceedings where party
ordered to retain costs and pay over balance, 456. To recover costs of amendment
and of submission, 456. Of pleas, demurrers, of contempt, 457. Of proceedings
under Will. 4, and Orders of 1833-457. If costs payable out of court, 458.
Nature and objects of, 469. By whom capable of being sustained, 470. Effect of, 472.
In what manner proceeded with, 473. Affidavit of no collusion, 474. Motion for
injunction to stay proceedings at law, 474. To bring interpleader suit to a hearing,
475. Effect of death of plaintiff after decree, 475. Defendants entitled to read each
other's answer, 475. Effect of 1 & 2 W. 4, c. 58-476.
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