Anonymous

Without name.
This word is applied to 9uch hooks,
letters or papers, which arc published
without the author's name. No man
is bound to publish his name in con-
nexion with a book or paper he has
published ; but if the publication is li-
bellous, he is equally responsible as if
his name were published.

ANSWER, pleading in equity , is a
defence in writing made by a defend-
ant, to the charges contained in a bill
or information, filed in a court of equity

by the plaintiff against him. The word
answer involves iui ambiguity , it is
one thing when it simply replies to a
question, another when it meets a
charge ; the answer in equity includes
both senses, and may be divided into
an examination and a defence. In that
part which consists of an examination,
a direct and full answer, or reply, must
in general bo given to every question
asked. In that part which consists of
a defence, the defendant must state his
case distinctly ; but is not required to
give information respecting the proofs
that arc to maintain it. Gresl. Eq.
Ev. 16.

2. — As a defendant is called by a
bill or information to make a discovery
of the several charges it contains, he
must do so, unless he is protected ei ther
by a demurrer, a plea or disclaimer. It
may lie laid down as an invariable
rule, that whatever part of a bill or in-
formation Is not covered by one of
these must be defended by answer.
Rcdesd. Tr. Ch. PI. 244.

3. — In form it usually begins, 1st,
with its title, specifying which of the
defendants it is the answer of, and the
names of the plaintiffs in the cause in
which it is filed ns answer ; 2d, it re-
serves to the defendant all the advan-
tages w hich might be tuken by excep-
tion to the bill ; 3d, the subsUmcc of
the answer, according to the defend-
ant's knowledge, remembrance, inform-
ation and belief, then follows, in which
the matter of the bill, with the interro-
gatories founded thereon, are answer-
ed, one after the other, together with
such additional matter as the defend-
ant thinks necessary to bring forward
in his defence, either for the purjxxse of
qualifying, or adding to, the cose made
by the bill, or to state a new case on
his own behalf; 4th, this is followed
by a general traverse or denial of all
unlawful combinations charged in the
bill, and of all other matters therein
contained ; 5th, the answer is alw'ays
u|>on oath or affirmation, except in the
case ol a corporation, in which case it
is under the cor|>orutc seal.

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to contain, 1st, a statement of facts
and not arguments ; 2d, a confession
and avoidance, or traverse and denial
of the material parts of the bill ; 3d, its
language ought to be direct and with-
out evasion. Vide generally as to an-
swers, Redes. Tr. Ch. PI. 244 to 254 ;
Coop. 1*1. Eq. 312 to 327 ; Beames