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Certain Defences may be pleaded together without Leave.
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LVIII. The following Defences, or any Two or more of them, may be pleaded together as of course, without Leave of the Court or a Judge; that is to say, a Defence denying any Contract or Debt alleged in the Declaration, a Defence of Tender as to Part, a Defence of the Statute of Limitations, Set-off Bankruptcy of the Defendant, Discharge under an Insolvent Act, Plenè administravit, Plenè administra-vit præter, Infancy, Coverture, Payment, Accord and Satisfaction, Release, a Denial that the Property an Injury to which is complained of is the Plaintiff’s, Leave and Licence, Son assault demesne, and any other Pleas which the Judges of the said Superior Courts, or any Eight or more of them, of whom the Chief Judges of the said Courts shall be Three, shall by any Rule or Order to be from Time to Time by them made in Term or Vacation order or direct.
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