Double Plea
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. duplexplacitum.'] A plea which contains several distinct answers to the plaintiff's declaration.* Steph. PL 261, 252. A plea containing several dbtinct matters in answer to different parts of the declaration, where either of such matters alone is a sufficient answer to the whole.* Id. ibid.
See Arch. Civ. PL 1 74.
A plea containing an averment or denial of several facts^ constituting distinct points or defences.* 1 Burr. 316. The averment of several facts going to make up one point will not render a plea double.
1 Smithes Lead. Cos. 249, (Am. ed. note.)