interrogating part of bill in equity

A term familiar in discussions of pristine equity pleading. The part of a bill in equity following the general jurisdiction clause and generally comprising two features:-the general interrogatory and the special interrogatories. The general interrogatory calls on the defendant to make full, true and perfect answer to each and every allegation of the bill, or, what is the same in effect, it prays the court to require the defendant to appear in court and answer those allegations. The special interrogatories constitute the interrogating part of the bill as more generally understood and are properly put in series very much as the interrogatories for the taking of a deposition, being consecutively numbered for reference. 27 Am J2d Eq § 181.