§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.
§56-5-3. Acceptance of Payment Into Court; Trial of Issue as to Residue
The plaintiff may accept such sum, either in full satisfaction and then have judgment for his costs, or in part satisfaction and reply to the plea generally and if issue thereon be found for the defendant judgment shall be given for the defendant and he shall recover his costs.
§56-5-4. Setoff Generally; Plea or Account of Setoff; Counter Setoff; Trial
In a suit for any debt, the defendant may at the trial prove and have allowed against such debt any payment or setoff which is so described in his plea, or in an account filed therewith, as to give the plaintiff notice of its nature, but not otherwise. Although the claim of the plaintiff be […]
§56-5-5. Special Pleas in the Nature of Pleas of Setoff; Verification
In any action on a contract, the defendant may file a plea alleging any such failure in the consideration of the contract, or fraud in its procurement, or any such breach of any warranty to him of the title to real property or of the title or the soundness of personal property, for the price […]
§56-5-6. When Special Plea Bar to Relief in Equity; Nature of Replication
If a defendant entitled to such plea as is mentioned in the preceding section shall not tender it, or though he tender it, if it be rejected for not being offered in due time, he shall not be precluded from such relief in equity as he would have been entitled to if the preceding section […]
§56-5-7. Application of Article to Voluntary Bonds or Deeds
Nothing in this article shall impair or affect the obligation of any bond or other deed deemed voluntary in law, upon any party thereto, or his representatives.
§56-5-8. Setoff as to Part of Demand; Continuance
If the defendant file a plea or account of setoff which covers or applies to part of the plaintiff's demand, judgment may forthwith be rendered for the part not controverted and the costs accrued until the filing of the plea or account, and the case shall be proceeded with for the residue as if the […]
§56-5-9. Status of Defendant With Reference to Setoff; Verdict and Judgment
A defendant who files a plea or account under this article shall be deemed to have brought an action against the plaintiff (at the time of filing the same) for the matters mentioned in such plea or account, and the plaintiff shall not, after the plea or account is filed, dismiss his case without the […]