§ Rule 18 Joinder of Claims and Remedies

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Rule 18. Joinder of Claims and Remedies

    (a) Joinder of Claims. A party asserting a claim to relief as an original claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim, may join either as independent or as alternate claims as many claims either legal or equitable or both, and individually and in the aggregate within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the court, as the party has against an opposing party.

    (b) Joinder of Remedies; Fraudulent Conveyances. Whenever a claim is one heretofore cognizable only after another claim has been prosecuted to a conclusion, the two claims, if within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the court, may be joined in a single action; but the court shall grant relief in that action only in accordance with the relative substantive rights of the parties. In particular, a plaintiff may state a claim for money and a claim to have set aside a conveyance fraudulent as to the plaintiff, without first having obtained a judgment establishing the claim for money.