Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated Actsof the claim In reconvention
| 45. If the defendant pleads a claim in reconvention with his answer, the plaintiff shall be called upon to admit or deny the same. If he denies the claim in reconvention, the plaintiff shall be required, forthwith, or at such further time as the court shall fix, to plead thereto, and the provisions of section 38 shall, so far as applicable, mutatis mutandis, apply to the plaintiff's reply to the defendant's claim in reconvention: Provided that the plaintiff shall not set out in his reply new matter amounting to a new cause of action if he could have pleaded the same in his original plaint. |