{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:167","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Defense or Set-off Founded upon Separate Grounds","number":"167","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/167/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE II — PLEADINGS","chapter":"Chapter 2. — Statement of Claim and of Defense"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where the defendant relies upon several distinct grounds of defense or set-off founded upon separate and distinct facts, they shall be stated separately and distinctly.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/167/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":106,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/106/?article=167&paragraph=lead#article-167-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."}