 | 1836 - 534 páginas
...action for infringement, may grant costs not exceeding three times the amount of damages given. 15. Defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act in evidence, and any special matter of which notice may have been given to the plaintiff thirty days before trial, which... | |
 | Great Britain - 1836 - 626 páginas
...custom to the contrary notwithandtng : And if any action shall be brought for any thing done in purlance of this Act, the defendant may plead the general issue, and give detl ; and 1 recollect very few instaure, here this sort of recommendation has been iven iu vain."... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 páginas
...said company. SECT. 7. If any aciion or suit shall be commenced for any matter or thing done by virtue of this act, the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this act in evidence. SECT. 8. Whenever the said company shall be reduced to less than thirty members, excluding officers,... | |
 | 1841 - 522 páginas
...this section it is enacted, ' that in any action against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this act,' the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special mutter in evidence at the trial to be had thereupon ; and l>y the 3 & 4 \Vill.... | |
 | Peter BURKE (Serjeant at Law.) - 1842 - 154 páginas
...suit be commenced or brought against any person for doing or causing to be done anything in pursuance of this act, the defendant may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; and if upon such action a verdict be given for the defendant, or the... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1845 - 1052 páginas
...that if any action or suit shall be brought against any person for any thing done in pursuance and in execution of this act, the defendant may plead the general issue ; and if a verdict pas for the defendant, or the plaintiff discontinue his or her action, or i>e nonsuited,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1847 - 490 páginas
...suit be commenced or brought against any person for doing or causing to be done anything in pursuance of this act, the defendant may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence ; and if upon such action a verdict be given for the defendant, or the... | |
 | William Newton - 1853 - 526 páginas
...Secretary's office. Sec. 9. Actions maintainable for pirating patents, and damages recoverable. Sec. 10. Defendant may plead the general issue, and give this act in evidence, and every special matter, to prove that the specification does not contain the whole truth, or contains... | |
 | 1853 - 530 páginas
...Secretary's office. Sec. 9. Actions maintainable for pirating patents, and damages recoverable. Sec. 10. Defendant may plead the general issue, and give this act in evidence, and every special matter, to prove that the specification does not contain the whole truth, or contains... | |
 | 1853 - 798 páginas
...they were drawn, for his more certain information. And if any person shall be sued for doing anything in execution of this act the defendant may plead the general issue, & give this act in evidence; & if the plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or a judgement pass against him... | |
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... the defendant may plead the general issue and give this act in evidence; and if the plaintiff shall be non-suited, or a verdict pass against him, or a judgment on demurrer, the defendant shall recover double costs. 
