Avoidance
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
A makiug void, or of no effect. See Avoid. In English ecclesiastical law. A state of being void or vacant. The condition of a benefice, when void of an incumbent; the opposite of plenarty. Jacob. In pleading. The evading or escapmg from the legal effect of a pleading, by alleging new matter m answer to it.
Stq>h, Pi, 199.
See Confession and avoidance.