{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:142","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Denial of Contract","number":"142","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/142/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE II — PLEADINGS","chapter":"Chapter 1. — General Provisions"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where a contract is alleged in any pleading, a bare denial of the same by the opposite party shall be construed only as a denial in fact of such contract or of the matters of fact from which the same may be implied, and not as a denial of the legality or legal sufficiency of such contract.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/142/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":94,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/94/?article=142&paragraph=lead#article-142-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}