Repugnancy
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In Contracts. A disagreement or inconsistency between two or more clauses of the same instrument. In deeds, and other instruments inter vivos, the earlier clause prevails, if the inconsistency be not so great as to avoid the instrument for uncertainty; 2 C. B. 830; 13 M. & W. 534. In wills, the latter clause prevails, under the same exceptions; Co. Litt 112 b; 2 My. & K. 149; 1 Jarm. Wills 411.
See, however, 18 Ch. Div. 17.
Repugnancy in a condition renders it void; Stockton v. Turner, 7 J. J. Marsh. (Ky.) 192; 6 Ch. Div. 549. In Pleading. An inconsistency or disagreement between the statements of material facts in a declaration or other pleading: as, where certain timber was said to be for the completion of a house already built; 1 Salk. 213. Repugnancy of immaterial facts, or of redundant and unnecessary matter, if it does not contradict material allegations, will not, in general, vitiate the pleadings; Co. Litt. 303 &; 1 Chitty, PI.
233.
See Steph. PI.
378; Gould, PI. § 172.