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Section 199
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199. At any time before judgment, the parties may amend their pleadings without leave and as often as necessary provided the amendment is not useless or contrary to the ends of justice and does not result in an entirely new action or application having no connection with the original one.
An amendment may be made, for instance, to modify, correct or complete allegations or conclusions, to invoke new facts or to assert a right accrued since service of the motion to institute proceedings.
199. Any party may, at any time before judgment, amend the declaration and any pleadings which he has filed: once without leave or costs, if the opposite party has not answered the pleading in any way or served an inscription; with the permission of the court and on the conditions that it considers necessary to safeguard the rights of the opposite party, in other cases.
199. Any party may, at any time before judgment, amend the writ and any pleadings which he has filed: once without leave or costs, if the opposite party has not answered the pleading in any way or served an inscription; with the permission of the court and on the conditions that it considers necessary to safeguard the rights of the opposite party, in other cases.
