§56-5-1. Payment Before Action Is Brought May Be Pleaded
In any action for the recovery of a debt, the defendant may plead payment of the debt (or of so much as is due by the condition) before action brought.
§56-5-2. Payment Into Court After Action Is Brought
In any personal action, the defendant may pay into court, to the clerk, a sum of money on account of what is claimed, or by way of compensation or amends, and plead that he is not indebted to the plaintiff (or that the plaintiff has not sustained damages) to a greater amount than such sum.
§56-4-62. Verification of Pleadings in Equity
If the plaintiff desire the defendant to answer the bill on oath, he must verify his bill by affidavit, and if the bill be so verified, the defendant must in like manner verify his answer. But if the bill be not verified, the defendant need not verify his answer, and if he does so it […]
§56-4-63. Appearance of Corporation by Attorney; Verification of Pleading of Corporation
Any corporation may appear, plead or answer by attorney in any action, suit or proceeding for the same purposes, in the same manner and form and to the same extent and effect as if it were a natural person. Any answer or pleading of a corporation shall be verified in any case in which it […]
§56-4-54. Form of Bill of Complaint
The plaintiff's bill may be in form or in substance as follows: The bill of complaint of A …………………………………… B ……………………………………………….. (state the names of all the plaintiffs) against C …………………………………………………………. D ……………………………. State the names of all the defendants, if known, and if not, designate them as the "unknown parties," or "unknown heirs," etc., […]
§56-4-55. Jury Trial of Issue Upon Plea in Equity
A plaintiff in equity may take issue upon a plea, and either party may have such issue tried by a jury.
§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
A plaintiff in equity may have any plea or demurrer set down to be argued. If the same be overruled, no other plea or demurrer shall afterwards be received, but the defendant shall file his answer, in court, if in session, or, if not in session, in the clerk's office of the court in which […]
§56-4-57. Time to Answer in General
A defendant may file his answer at any time before final decree, unless required to file it sooner under section fifty-six of this article, or by a proper rule of court under section four, article one, chapter fifty-one of this code, but a cause shall not be sent to rules or continued, because an answer […]
§56-4-58. Claim in Answer for Affirmative Relief; Special Reply
A defendant in a suit in equity may, in his answer, allege any new matter constituting a claim for affirmative relief in such suit against the plaintiff or any defendant therein, in the same manner and with like effect as if the same had been alleged in a crossbill filed by him therein; and in […]
§56-4-59. Answer Asking Affirmative Relief Equivalent to Crossbill
When a defendant in equity in his answer alleges new matter constituting a claim to affirmative relief, the case shall be decided upon the same principles, and the same relief shall be decreed in the case, as if a crossbill had been filed to obtain such relief.