 | John Monson Carrow - 1847 - 834 pàgines
...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 - 1848 - 672 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Phineas Pemberton Morris - 1849 - 336 pàgines
...or lessors, owner or owner s-of such manor, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. And if the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action shall become...discontinue his, her or their action, or have judgment given against him, her or them, the defendant or defendants in such replevin shall recover double costs... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1849 - 706 pàgines
...authorizing any public officer, when sued for or concerning any act done by him, by virtue of his office, to plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence, without notice, relates only to suits for acts dime by officers by virtue of their office; and does... | |
 | Great Britain. Bail Court - 1851 - 400 pàgines
...landlords by 11 Geo. 2, c. 19, s. 22, is, that in actions of replevin, " if the plaintiff or plaintiffs" " shall become nonsuit, discontinue, his, her, or their action, or have judgment given against him, her, or them, the defendant or defendants in such replevin shall recover double... | |
 | 1851 - 462 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Simcoe Saunders - 1851 - 776 pàgines
...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... | |
 | David Cato Macrae, Charles John Belcher Hertslet - 1852 - 354 pàgines
...and if any action should be brought in respect of such discharge of duty, such persons were empowered to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence. Upon this direction the jury found a verdict for the defendant. It was now contended that this direction... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - 1852 - 690 pàgines
...statute," and the statute 13 & 14 Viet. c. 61, s. 19, applies to this case, and allows the defendant to plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence. Although the primary object of that section is to protect high-bailiffs and their officers, it applies... | |
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... to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence... 
