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Definition of Repugnancy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repugnancy
Literary usage of Repugnancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"He frequently speaks of it as exclusive, not because made so in terms, nor because
it prohibited to the states, but on account of a supposed repugnancy or ..."
2. Estates, Future Interests, and Illegal Conditions and Restraints in Illinois by Albert Martin Kales (1920)
"repugnancy: It is worth observing that only two cases put forward this reason of
repugnancy.39 In both of them, the holding of the gift over void, ..."
3. Hand-book of Common-law Pleading by Benjamin Jonson Shipman (1895)
"A pleading is bad for repugnancy when it contains contradictory or ... repugnancy is
a fault in all pleading, and the reason of the rule is clearly apparent ..."
4. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"repugnancy in indictments. A repugnancy vitiates the indictment if it is contained
in the description of the substance of the offense charged.1 Otherwise it ..."
5. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman (1844)
"EFFECT OF repugnancy OR CONTRADICTION IN WILLS. DOUBT is sometimes cast upon the
intention of a tes- Rule in case of tator by the repugnancy or ..."
6. A Treatise on Criminal Pleading and Practice by Francis Wharton (1889)
"repugnancy. § 256. When one material averment in an indictment is ... repugnancy has
been held to exist where an indictment charged an offence to have ..."
7. Commentaries on the Law of Criminal Procedure: Or, Pleading, Evidence, and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1872)
"repugnancy. §489. What is repugnancy—Its Effect — repugnancy in pleading is where
the allegations of the party are inconsistent with each other.6 In such a ..."
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