Particular Statement

In Pennsylvania pleading and practice. A statement particularly specifying the date of a promise, book account, note, bond (penal or single), bill, or all of them, on which an action is founded and the amount believed by the plaintiff to be due froln the defendant. 6 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 21. It is founded on the provisions of a statute passed March 21, 1806. See 4 Smith, Pa. Laws, 328. It is an unmethodical declaration, not restricted to any particular form. 2 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 537; 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 405; 8 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 316, 567; 2 Browne (Pa.) 40.

This term, in use in Pennsylvania, denotes a statement which a plaintiff may be required to file, exhibiting in detail the items of his claim, (or its nature, lf single,) with the dates and sums. It is a species of declaration, but ls informal and not required to be methodical. Dixon v. Sturgeon. 6 Serg. & R. (Pat) 28.

Defined under Particular in Black's Law Dictionary.