Estee's Pleadings, Practice, and Forms: Adapted to Actions and Special Proceedings Under Codes of Civil Procedure, Volume 1

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Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1886 - Civil procedure

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Contents

Common interest
68
Joint tenants and tenants in common 140 Joint owners of chattels
70
Executors and administrators
71
Partners
73
Mortgages and mechanic liens 144 Principal and agent 145 Promissory notes
74
Quo warranto 147 Sheriffs 148 State or United States 149 Sureties
75
CHAPTER VII
76
In ejectment 154 For injuries to the person
77
Injuries to married women
78
Injuries to child or servant 157 For seduction
81
CHAPTER VIII
83
Against assessors 161 Breach of contract 162 Executors and administrators
84
Foreclosure suits
85
Fraud
87
Ejectment
88
Married women 167 Infants
90
Infringement of patent 169 Injunction 170 Injuries caused by negligence 171 Legacy charged on land 172 Partners
91
Trespass 175 Trustees 8176 Persons severally liable on same obligation
93
PART SECOND ANALYSIS OF PLEADINGS CHAPTER I
97
Forms of action abolished
98
Legal and equitable rights preserved 181 Legal and equitable relief granted in same action
100
Of what pleadings consist
101
Distinction between pleadings and the action 184 Facts only to be stated 185 Conclusions of law not to be alleged
103
Anticipation of defense 187 Facts independent of cause of action 188 Implications and presumptions of
106
189 190 Material averments
107
Immaterial irrelevant and redundant matter
109
What fact should be stated 193 What should be omitted
112
Mode of stating facts 195 Must be stated logically
113
Must be stated by direct averment 197 In ordinary and concise language
115
With sufficient certainty 199 Pleadings how construed
117
Verified pleadings
119
201204 Admissions in pleadings 202 By demurrer and answer
120
By want of verification 204 Effect of admissions
121
Variance and defects
122
206
124
CHAPTER III
139
PLEADINGS OF PLAINTIFF
147

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Page 192 - ... Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust, or a person expressly authorized by statute, may sue, without joining with him the person for whose benefit the action is prosecuted. A person with whom or in whose name a contract is made for the benefit of another is a trustee of an express trust, within the meaning of this section.
Page 11 - Justices shall be necessary to pronounce a judgment. The Chief Justice shall apportion the business to the departments, and may, in his discretion, order any cause pending before the Court to be heard and decided by the Court in bank.
Page 13 - The Superior Court shall have original jurisdiction in *. all cases in equity, and in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real property, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine, and in all other cases in which the demand, exclusive of interest, or the value of the property in controversy, amounts to three hundred dollars...
Page 165 - In pleading the performance of conditions precedent in a contract, it shall not be necessary to state the facts showing such performance ; but it may be stated generally that the party duly performed all the conditions on his part...
Page 83 - Persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument, including the parties to bills of exchange and promissory notes, and sureties on the same or separate instruments, may all or any of them be included in the same action, at the option of the plaintiff...
Page 196 - Of the parties to the action, those who are united in interest must be joined as plaintiffs or defendants; but if the consent of any one,' who should have been joined as plaintiff, cannot be obtained, he may be made a defendant, the reason thereof being stated in the complaint...
Page 598 - ... and for money received by the defendant for the use of the plaintiff...
Page 672 - When the death of a person, not being a minor, is caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another, his heirs or personal representatives may maintain an action for damages against the person causing the death; or if such person be employed by another person who is responsible for his conduct, then also against such other person. In every action under this and the preceding section, such damages may be given as, under all the circumstances of the case, may be just.
Page 89 - When a married woman is a party, her husband must be joined with her, except: 1. When the action concerns her separate property, or her right or claim to the homestead property, she may sue alone; 2. When the action is between herself and her husband, she may sue or be sued alone; 3.
Page 42 - It shall then be the duty of the state court to accept said petition and bond, and proceed no further in such...

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