Vagueness
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Uncertainty.
Certainty is required in contracts, wills, pleadings, judgments, and, indeed, in all the acts on which courts have to give a judgment, and if they be vague so as not to be understood, they are, in general, invalid.
5 Barn. & C. 583; 1 Russ. & M. 116; 1 Chit. Prac. 123.
A charge of frequent intemperance and habitual indolence is vague and too general.
2 Mart. (La.; N. S.) 530.
See "Certainty." VAILLER (L. Fr.) To be worth; to be of the value.