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Rule 51. Joinder of Claims and Remedies
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(a) Joinder of Claims. The plaintiff in his petition or in a reply setting forth a counterclaim and the defendant in an answer setting forth a counterclaim may join either as independent or as alternate claims as many claims either legal or equitable or both as he may have against an opposing party. There may be a like joinder of claims when there are multiple parties if the requirements of Rules 39, 40, and 43 are satisfied. There may be a like joinder of cross claims or third-party claims if the requirements of Rules 38 and 97, respectively, are satisfied.
(b) Joinder of Remedies. Whenever a claim is one heretofore cognizable only after another claim has been prosecuted to a conclusion, the two claims may be joined in a single action; but the court shall grant relief in that action only in accordance with the relative substantive rights of the parties.
Source: Federal Rule 18.
Change: Reference to the right of plaintiff to join an action upon a claim for money and an action to set aside a fraudulent conveyance is omitted as unnecessary in view of the decisions of this state.
Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941.AMENDMENTS