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TEXAS RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE / RULE 64

TRCP 64: Amended instrument

Identifying an amended pleading and filing an entire, complete substitute.

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The party amending shall point out the instrument amended, as "original petition," or "plaintiff's first supplemental petition," or as "original answer," or "defendant's first supplemental answer" or other instrument file by the party and shall amend by filing a substitute therefor, entire and complete in itself, indorsed "amended original petition," or "amended first supplemental petition," or "amended original answer," or "amended first supplemental answer," accordingly as said instruments of pleading are designated.