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GIST, pleading. Gist of the action is the essential ground or object of it,
in point of law, and without which there is no cause of action. Gould on Pl.
c. 4, Sec. 12. But it is observable that the substance or gist of the action
is not always the principal cause of the plaintiff Is complaint in point of
fact, nor that on which he recovers all or the greatest part of his damages.
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