Supreme Court of Virginia October 25, 1808 (Spotswood v. Price)

If I am wrong in this, still the fault is cured. Suppose a general demurrer had been filed to this deed — then the act of Assembly(b) would have sustained it. The rule is, that upon a demurrer to the plea, you shall go back to the first fault; that is, the first fault that would be fatal on general demurrer; for by pleading, and not assigning specially, faults in form, under the reason of the