Disjunctive Allegations
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In pleading. Allegations which charge a party disjunctively, so as to leave it uncertain what 'is relied on as the accusation against him. An indictment, information, or complaint which charges the defendant vsdth one or ■other of two offenses, in the disjunctive, as «ihat he murdered "or" caused to be mur ■ dered, forged "or" caused to be forg«>d, Wrote and published "or" caused to be ■wfritten and published, is bad for uncertainty.
8 Mod. 330; 1 Salk. 342, 371; 2 Stranj^e, 900; Cas. temp. Hardw. 370; 5 Barn- & C. 251; 2 Car. & K. 243; 1 Younge & J. 22.