defect of form or substance

defect of form or substance
If the right of the party pleading sufficiently appears to the court, although the pleading does not conform to the established method of procedure, the pleading is said to be defective in matter of form. But if the right does not sufficiently appear to the court, the pleading is defective in matter of substance. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v Kurtz, lOInd App 60, 75, 37 NE 303.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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