Redundancy
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A fault in the draughting of writings, consisting in irrelevant matters are stigmatized as redundant. The words are chiefly used of excess or supei-fluities in pleadings; but this is not because their meaning is not as well applicable to other writings, but because the occasions for raising the objection are more frequent in regard to pleadings; and the rules as to what is relevant matter are more distinct and strict.