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Inconsistent

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Mutually repugnant or contradictory; contrary, the one to the other, so that both cannot stand, but the acceptance or establishment of the one implies the abrogation or abandonment of the other; as, in speaking of "inconsistent defenses," or the repeal by a statute of "all laws inconsistent herewith."

See In re Hickory Tree Road, 43 Pa. 142; Irwin v. Holbrook, 32 Wash. 349, 73 Pac. 361; Swan v. U. S., 3 Wyo. 151, 9 Pac. 931.