Article 4 - RULES AND PLEADING
- Section 56-4-1 - Rule days
- Section 56-4-2 - Rule docket
- Section 56-4-3 - Rule entries
- Section 56-4-4 - Continuance at rules in absence of clerk
- Section 56-4-5 - What rules may require
- Section 56-4-6 - Time for appearance; rule to file declaration; nonsuit for nonprosecution; damages
- Section 56-4-7 - Dismissal for failure to file declaration or bill
- Section 56-4-8 - Return to show defendant's nonresidence; abatement as to nonresident not served
- Section 56-4-9 - Minors may sue by next friend or guardian; substitution of plaintiffs
- Section 56-4-10 - Guardian ad litem
- Section 56-4-11 - Transfer of cases from law to equity and vice versa
- Section 56-4-12 - Abatement for want of form in declaration
- Section 56-4-13 - Unnecessary averments in trespass on the case
- Section 56-4-14 - Allegations of place where contract was made or act done
- Section 56-4-15 - Averments as to jurisdiction; profert; oyer
- Section 56-4-16 - Allegations not traversable nor requiring proof
- Section 56-4-17 - Form of declaration or count on insurance policy
- Section 56-4-18 - Filing account in assumpsit
- Section 56-4-19 - Statement of particulars of claim
- Section 56-4-20 - Statement of particulars of defense
- Section 56-4-21 - Plea in action on insurance policy; statement specifying particular defense
- Section 56-4-22 - Same - Joinder in issue; statement specifying matter in waiver, estoppel or confession and avoidance
- Section 56-4-23 - Failure to file statement; insufficient statement; amendment; exclusion of evidence of party in default; sufficiency of statement
- Section 56-4-24 - Right to amend in general
- Section 56-4-25 - Amended declaration or bill, supplemental bill or bill of revivor in vacation
- Section 56-4-26 - Amendment after demurrer is sustained
- Section 56-4-27 - Amendment to cure variance between pleading and proof
- Section 56-4-28 - Continuance and costs after amendment
- Section 56-4-29 - Plea in abatement - Misnomer; amendment inserting correct name
- Section 56-4-30 - Same - Plea in abatement for defects in writ or return; variance from declaration; void process
- Section 56-4-31 - Same - Plea in abatement for want of jurisdiction
- Section 56-4-32 - Same - Verification of plea in abatement and of non est factum; may be pleaded and verified by attorney or agent of defendant
- Section 56-4-33 - Same - Time for filing plea in abatement
- Section 56-4-34 - Misjoinder and nonjoinder of parties
- Section 56-4-35 - Verdict and judgment as to particular defendants; costs
- Section 56-4-36 - Scope of demurrer; objections to filing of pleadings for insufficiency abolished; form, grounds and argument
- Section 56-4-37 - Defects disregarded on demurrer
- Section 56-4-38 - Pleading in abatement and in bar at same time; trial of issues
- Section 56-4-39 - Pleading several defenses; demurrer and special replications to special plea
- Section 56-4-40 - Commencement of plea
- Section 56-4-41 - Unnecessary allegations in pleas, etc
- Section 56-4-42 - Omission of protestation
- Section 56-4-43 - Conclusion of traverse
- Section 56-4-44 - When parties may proceed without similiter or joinder in demurrer
- Section 56-4-45 - Unnecessary allegations in second or other plea
- Section 56-4-46 - Pleading denying execution of writing or entry or genuineness of judgment or decree
- Section 56-4-47 - Plea denying partnership; form of denial of corporate existence
- Section 56-4-48 - Judgment or decree by confession
- Section 56-4-49 - Failure to plead, answer or demur; rule to plead; conditional judgment or decree nisi; judgment or decree by default; order for inquiry of damages
- Section 56-4-50 - When inquiry of damages unnecessary
- Section 56-4-51 - Office judgment; affidavits by plaintiff and defendant; judgment
- Section 56-4-52 - Setting aside office judgment; trial
- Section 56-4-53 - Hearing as to defendants served; discontinuance
- Section 56-4-54 - Form of bill of complaint
- Section 56-4-55 - Jury trial of issue upon plea in equity
- Section 56-4-56 - Argument of plea or demurrer in equity; time to answer after demurrer overruled; proceeding on default; status of answer filed in vacation
- Section 56-4-57 - Time to answer in general
- Section 56-4-58 - Claim in answer for affirmative relief; special reply
- Section 56-4-59 - Answer asking affirmative relief equivalent to crossbill
- Section 56-4-60 - Admissions in equity by failure to deny
- Section 56-4-61 - Proof of allegations denied by answer
- Section 56-4-62 - Verification of pleadings in equity
- Section 56-4-63 - Appearance of corporation by attorney; verification of pleading of corporation
- Section 56-4-64 - Form of verification of pleading
- Section 56-4-65 - Exceptions to answers for insufficiency abolished; test by demurrer; amended answer; procedure if amended answer is insufficient
- Section 56-4-66 - Attachment or order to answer interrogatories
- Section 56-4-67 - Insufficient answer after rule
- Section 56-4-68 - Setting cause in equity for hearing
- Section 56-4-69 - Hearing as to one defendant; rule to mature cause
- Section 56-4-70 - Control by court over proceedings in office during vacation
- Section 56-4-71 - Pleadings and proof in actions on bonds, notes or other evidences of debt subject to taxation