Case Name: Matter of Practice
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1823-05
Citations: 7 N.J.L. 39
Docket Number: 
Parties: Matter of Practice.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 47–47

Head Matter:
Matter of Practice.
If pleadings are filed after tlie thirty days allowed by the practice act have expired, (although notice is given of tlie time of filing same) they may be treated as nullities.
Scuclder, submitted a question to the court, whether, if pleadings are filed after the thirty days (allowed by the practice act for filing the same) have expired, and a notice is given to the adverse party of the time of filing the same, as is required by the third section of the supplement to the practice act, {Rev. Laws 692), your adversary is bound under that section to receive the pleading, or may treat it as a nullity ?

Opinion:
Kirpateick O. J.
said, he thought it could be treated as a nullity, otherwise the practice act, as to the time of filing pleadings, would be done away.