Rule 10. Form of Pleadings

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RULE 10. FORM OF PLEADINGS

(a) Caption, Name of Parties.

Every pleading shall contain a caption setting forth the name of the State and County, the name of the Court, the title of the action, the file number and a designation as in Rule 7(a). In the summons and complaint the title of the action shall include the names of all parties, but in other pleadings it is sufficient to state the name of the first party on each side with an appropriate indication of other parties.

(1) Unknown Parties.

When a party does not know the name of an adverse party he may state that fact in the pleadings and designate such adverse party by any name and the words "whose true name is unknown," and when his true name is discovered the pleadings must be amended accordingly.

(b) Paragraphs; Separate Statements.

All averments of the facts of a cause of action or defense and demands for relief shall be made in consecutive numbered paragraphs, the contents of each of which shall be limited as far as practicable to a statement of a single set of circumstances; and a paragraph may be referred to by number in all succeeding pleadings. Each cause of action and each defense shall be stated in a separate cause of action or defense.

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