Ordinance No. XXXI of 1907: An Ordinance to Consolidate and Amend the Law Relating to the Procedure in the Courts of Civil Jurisdiction in the Colony (20th December, 1907) ...J.E. Tyler, Government printer, 1907 - 438 pages |
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Page 24 - All persons may be joined in one action as defendants if there is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative...
Page 25 - All persons may be joined as defendants against whom the right to any relief is alleged to exist, whether jointly, severally or in the alternative; and judgment may be given against such one or more of the defendants as may be found to be liable according to their respective liabilities, without any amendment.
Page 46 - The Court or a Judge may, at any stage of the proceedings, either upon or without the application of either party, and on such terms as may appear to the Court or a Judge...
Page 79 - Judge may at any time for sufficient reason order that any particular fact or facts may be proved by affidavit, or that the affidavit of any witness may be read at the hearing or trial, on such conditions as the Court or Judge may think reasonable...
Page 43 - ... so as to enable the court to pronounce a final judgment in the same action both on the original and on the cross-claim (z).
Page 236 - Code or fixed by any order enlarging time, for doing any act or taking any proceeding, upon such terms (if any) as the justice of the case may require, and any such enlargement may be ordered, although the application for the same is not made until after the expiration of the time appointed or allowed.
Page 25 - Whore the plaintiff is in doubt as to the person from whom he is entitled to redress, he may join two or more defendants, to the intent that the question as to which, if any. of the defendants is liable, and to what extent, may be determined as between all parties.
Page 45 - When a contract, promise, or agreement is alleged in any 216. pleading, a bare denial of the same by the opposite party shall be construed only as a denial in fact of the express contract, promise, or agreement alleged, or of the matters of fact from which the same may be implied by law, and not as a denial of the legality or sufficiency in law of such contract, promise, or agreement, whether with reference to the Statute of Frauds or otherwise.
Page 44 - Every allegation of fact in any pleading in an action, not being a petition or summons, if not denied specifically or by necessary implication, or stated to be not admitted in the pleading of the opposite party, shall be taken to be admitted, except as against an infant, lunatie, or person of unsound mind not so found by inquisition.
Page 255 - ... is hereby required, within forty-eight hours from the last-mentioned hour, to admit that such of the said documents as are specified to be originals were respectively written, signed, or executed as they purport respectively to have been...