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Maxims and rules of pleading; : in actions real, personal and mixt, popular and penal: describing the nature of declarations, pleas, replications, rejoynders, and all other parts of pleading; shewing their validity and defects, and in what cases they are amendable by the court, or remediable by the statute-law, or otherwise. Likewise, which of the parties in his plea shall first offer the issue, and where special matter may be given in evidence upon the general issue; of demurrers upon evidence; of verdicts, general and special, and of bills of exceptions to the same; of judgments, executions, writs of error and false judgment; and of appeals, indictments, and informations, and the pleadings relating thereunto. Published from the manuscript of Sir Robert Heath, knight; Lord Chief Justice successively of the Courts of Common-Pleas and Kings-Bench, in the reign of King Charles the First. With additions of new matter to every title, from all the reports since his time