Redundancy

Matter inserted in a writing foreign to its purpose; superfluous statement; surplusage. A material distinction is made between redundancy in allegations and redundancy in the proof. In the former case, a variance between the allegations and the proof will be fatal, if the redundant allegations are descriptive of that which is essential. But in the latter case, redundancy cannot vitiate, merely because more is proved than is alleged, unless the matter superfluously proved goes to contradict'some essential part of the allegation.^

See Surplusage.