Pleading rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 10 U.S. 206 - The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Hodgson · 1810Most cited · 53 citing opinions
special matter on a deed must be pleaded
However desirable it may be to admit in evidence, on the general issue in an action of covenant on a policy of insurance, every thing which may avoid the contract, or lessen the damages, as is done in actions on the case, this court does not know that it possesses the power of changing the law of pleading, or to admit of evidence inconsistent with the forms which it has prescribed. No rule on this subject is more inflexible than that, in actions on deeds, all special matter of defence must be pleaded.
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