ORDER 20 : STATEMENT OF CLAIM

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1. Where the writ; is specially indorsed under Order 2, Rule 6, no further statement of claim shall be delivered, unless the Court or a Judge shall otherwise order. In other cases the plaintiff shall, subject to Order 17, Rule 11, as to filing a statement of claim when there is no appearance, file and deliver a statement of claim within ten days after appearance, unless the time is enlarged by the Court or a Judge.

1A. Whenever a statement, of claim is delivered the plaintiff may therein alter, modify, or extend his claim without any amendment of the indorsement of the writ.

2. Every statement, of claim shall state specifically the relief which the plaintiff claims, either simply or in the alternative, and it shall not be necessary to ask for general or other relief, which may always be given, as a Court or a Judge may think just, to the same extent as if it had been asked for. And the same Rule shall apply to any counterclaim made, or relief claimed by the defendant, in his defence.

3. Where the plaintiff seeks relief in respect of several distinct claims or causes of complaint founded upon separate and distinct grounds, they shall be stated, as far as may be, separately and distinctly. And the same Rule shall apply where the defendant relies upon several distinct grounds of defence or counter-claim, founded upon separate and distinct facts.

4. In every case in which the cause of action is a stated or settled account, the same shall be alleged with particulars; but in every case in which a statement of account is relied upon by way of evidence or admission of any other cause of action which is pleaded, the same shall not be alleged in the pleadings.

5. In probate actions where the plaintiff disputes the interest of the defendant, he shall allege in his statement of claim that he denies the defendant's interest.