Sec. 1. The purpose of this chapter is to enable the supreme court to:

(1) simplify and abbreviate the pleadings and proceedings;

Terms Used In Indiana Code 34-8-1-1

  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
(2) expedite the decision of causes;

(3) remedy abuses and imperfections that exist in the practice;

(4) abolish unnecessary forms and technicalities in pleading and practice; and

(5) abolish fictions and unnecessary process and proceedings.

[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-5-2-1 part.]

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.3.