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Duplicity

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

Black's Law Dictionary

The technical fault, in pleading, of uniting two or more causes of action in one count in a writ or two or more grounds of defense in one plea or two or more breaches in a replication or two or more offenses in the same count of an indictment Tucker v. State, 6 Tex. App. 253; Waters v. Pcople, 104 111.

547; Mullin v. Blumenthal, 1 Pennewill (Del.) 476, 42 Atl. 175; Devino v. Railroad Co.., 63 Vt. 98, 20 AtL 953; Tucker v. Ladd, 7 Cow. (N. YJ 452.