This occurs where a litigant, by a complex, indirect or roundabout course of legal proceeding, makes two or more actions necessary, in order to' effect that adjustment of rights between all the parlies concerned in the transaction which, by a more direct course, might have been accomplished in a single suit.
Definition of Circuity Of Action
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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
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Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition