Confession And Avoidance
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A plea in confession and avoidance is one which avows and confesses the truth of the averments of fact in the declaration, cither expressly or by impliertion, but then proceeds to allege new matter which tends to deprive the facis admitted of their ordinary legal effect, or to obviate, neutralize, or avoid them.