Supplement to the Second and Third Editions of Voorhies' Annotated Code: Containing All the Decisions and Rules of Court Since the Publication of the Second Edition of Said Code, the Assignments of Terms, Circuits, Etc., for the Years 1854 and 1855

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J. S. Voorhies, 1854 - Civil procedure - 328 pages

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Page 66 - Any person may be made a defendant who has or claims an interest in the controversy adverse to the plaintiff, or who is a necessary party to a complete determination or settlement of the question involved therein.
Page 58 - When publication is ordered, personal service of a copy of the summons and complaint out of the state...
Page 119 - Claims against a trustee by virtue of a contract, or by operation of law; 5.
Page 257 - Any court in which an action is pending, or a judge thereof may, upon notice, order either party to give to the other, within a specified time, an inspection and copy, or permission to take a copy, of...
Page 96 - ... as to matters therein stated to be alleged upon information and belief, and that as to those matters he believes it to be true.
Page 172 - Judgment may be given, for or against one or more of several plaintiffs, and for or against one or more of several defendants, and it may determine the ultimate rights of the parties on each side, as between themselves, and it may grant to the defendant any affirmative relief to which he may be entitled.
Page 214 - Procedure, can only be made to the court before which the trial is had, or the judgment rendered, and s?ia!J in all cases be made before final costs are adjusted.
Page 248 - ... to allow judgment to be taken against him, for the sum or property, or to the effect therein specified, with costs.
Page 93 - When the answer contains new matter constituting a counterclaim, the plaintiff may, within twenty days, reply to such new matter (denying, generally or specifically, each allegation controverted by him, or any knowledge or information thereof, sufficient to form a belief; and he may allege, in ordinary and concise language, without repetition, any new matter, not inconsistent with the complaint, constituting a defence to such new matter in the answer...
Page 120 - Injuries with or without force, to person and property, or either ; or 4. Injuries to character ; or 5. Claims to recover real property, with or without damages for the withholding thereof, and the rents and profits of the same ; or 6.

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