New Matter
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In pleading. Matter extrinsic to the matter in the pleading to which the party introducing the same answers or replies.
7 Hun (N. Y.) 482.
Facts different from those alleged in the complaint, and not embraced within the judicial inquiry into their truth.
16 S. C. 586.
Thus, payment (16 N. Y. 297; 25 Ohio St. 276), fraud in obtaining the instrument sued on (20 Minn. 411), or limitations (57 Iowa, 307) constitute new matter.