N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 3015: Particularity as to specific matters

Rule 3015. Particularity as to specific matters. (a) Conditions

precedent. The performance or occurrence of a condition precedent in a

contract need not be pleaded. A denial of performance or occurrence

shall be made specifically and with particularity. In case of such

denial, the party relying upon the performance or occurrence shall be

required to prove on the trial only such performance or occurrence as

shall have been so specified.

(b) Corporate status. Where any party is a corporation, the complaint

shall so state and, where known, it shall specify the state, country or

government by or under whose laws the party was created.

(c) Judgment, decision or determination. A judgment, decision or other

determination of a court, judicial or quasi-judicial tribunal, or of a

board or officer, may be pleaded without stating matter showing

jurisdiction to render it.

(d) Signatures. Unless specifically denied in the pleadings each

signature on a negotiable instrument is admitted.

(e) License to do business. Where the plaintiff's cause of action

against a consumer arises from the plaintiff's conduct of a business

which is required by state or local law to be licensed by the department

of consumer affairs of the city of New York, the Suffolk county

department of consumer affairs, the county of Rockland, the county of

Putnam, the county of Westchester, or the Nassau county department of

consumer affairs, the complaint shall allege, as part of the cause of

action, that plaintiff was duly licensed at the time of services

rendered and shall contain the name and number, if any, of such license

and the governmental agency which issued such license. The failure of

the plaintiff to comply with this subdivision will permit the defendant

to move for dismissal pursuant to paragraph seven of subdivision (a) of

rule thirty-two hundred eleven of this chapter.