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Parties To Actions And Suits Under The Revised Code, Leo Carlin
Parties To Actions And Suits Under The Revised Code, Leo Carlin
West Virginia Law Review
It is not the purpose of this discussion to deal with all the provisions in the Revised Code relating to parties to actions and suits, but only with those which have been newly adopted in the revision. Most of the technicality which has heretofore hampered procedure involving the law of parties has prevailed in the common law actions, rather than in suits in equity; particularly, in the rules controlling joinder of parties and defining the consequences of misjoinder and nonjoinder of parties. The nature and effect of these rules at the common law and of the statutory modifications prior to …
Legislation--Bar Committee Appointed To Report Formal Errors In Revised Code, James W. Simonton
Legislation--Bar Committee Appointed To Report Formal Errors In Revised Code, James W. Simonton
West Virginia Law Review
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Pleading And Practice Under The Revised Code, Lawrence R. Lynch
Pleading And Practice Under The Revised Code, Lawrence R. Lynch
West Virginia Law Review
In a paper of limited length such as this necessarily must be, it is impracticable to discuss or even to mention many of the changes in pleading and practice contained in the Revised Code. For that reason this discussion will be confined primarily to some important and interesting changes in Chapter 56, entitled "Pleading and Practice." At the outset it may be said that the revisers have retained the common law system of pleading and procedure. They declined follow in the steps of those jurisdictions which have adopted what is known as code pleading and practice. Such changes as the …