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TEXAS RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE / RULE 50

TRCP 50: Paragraphs, separate statements

Numbered paragraphs, references to earlier pleadings and separate counts or defenses.

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All averments of claim or defense shall be made in numbered paragraphs, the contents of each of which shall be limited as far as practicable to a statement of a single set of circumstances; and a paragraph may be referred to by number in all succeeding pleadings, so long as the pleading containing such paragraph has not been superseded by an amendment as provided by Rule 65. Each claim founded upon a separate transaction or occurrence and each defense other than denials

shall be stated in a separate count or defense whenever a separation facilitates the clear presentation of the matters set forth.