First Schedule · Order 8 · Rule 7
Defence or set-off founded upon separate grounds
7. Defence or set-off founded upon separate grounds.—Where the defendant relies upon several distinct grounds of defence or set-off [or counter-claim] founded upon separate and distinct facts, they shall be stated, as far as may be, separately and distinctly.
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