Issues Cognizable

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1. Under Rule44 Section15, must an appellant always have filed a new-trial motion before assigning an otherwise preserved …
2. The assignment list omits a demonstrable clerical transposition in the judgment. Counsel says Rule51 Section8 categoric…
3. A legal question was raised below within the parties’ framed issues. No new-trial motion was filed. Opponent calls that…
4. Appellant introduces a wholly new factual theory outside the issues below, requiring evidence never presented. It relie…
5. An established defect concerns validity of the judgment itself. Counsel says Rule51 Section8 preserves only subject-mat…
6. Explain Rule51 Section8’s plain- and clerical-error qualifications without promising reversal.
7. A preserved legal question lies within the framed issues but no new-trial motion was filed. Explain Rule44 Section15.
8. Why does Rule44 Section15 not alone authorize a new factual theory requiring an undeveloped record?