{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:139","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"New Fact","number":"139","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/139/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE II — PLEADINGS","chapter":"Chapter 1. — General Provisions"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"The plaintiff and defendant, as the case may be, shall state in his pleading all matters which show the action or counter-claim not to be maintainable, or that the transaction is either void or voidable in point of law, and all such grounds of defense or reply, as the case may be, which, if not raised, would be likely to take the opposite party by surprise or would, without sufficient cause, raise issues of fact not arising out of the preceding pleadings.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/139/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":93,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/93/?article=139&paragraph=lead#article-139-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}