TY - JOUR
AU - Rosenberg, Rosalind
AB - 1986 BOOK REVIEWS 87 pleaded in abatement against causes of action (pp. 35, 392-393); defects of service were pleaded in bar and allowed (p. 36); and there were frequent demurrers based upon defects in pleading and variations between the writ and the declaration (pp. 69,91,160). One attorney even attempted to attack a pleading for failure to lay a fictitious venue in North Carolina; this quaint mastodon of English special pleading was wisely rejected by the colonial judges and plaintiff was given leave to amend his complaint (pp. 298,338). Since the General Court also operated as an appellate court in regard to precinct court cases, some elaborate assignments of error appear in the minutes (see pp. 91, 115 and 154-155). In one case the General Court enunciated the rule that a party who had suffered a default judgment in the precinct court did not have standing to appeal to the General Court. This outstanding body of court records was identified by Professor Richard B. Morris in 1941 as one of the most valuable legal records of the colonial period. I After four decades legal historians owe a debt of gratitude to the editors for their excellent work, and to the 
TI - Women and the Law: The Social Historical Perspective
JO - American Journal of Legal History
DO - 10.2307/845942
DA - 1986-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/women-and-the-law-the-social-historical-perspective-JL06lhciTF
SP - 87
EP - 89
VL - 30
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -