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DUPLICITY - Duplicity of pleading consists in multiplicity of distinct matter to one and the same thing, whereunto several answers are required. Duplicity may occur in one and the same pleading.
Duplicity
Definition - Noun
[Late Latin duplicitat- duplicitas duality, double-dealing, from Latin duplex twofold]
1 : the use of deceptive words or actions ...
nounThe act or practice of deceiving: cunning, deceitfulness, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, guile, shiftiness. See honest/dishonest.
Antonyms:
deceit
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On the other hand, duplicity; a negative pregnant; argumentative pleading; a special plea, amounting to the general issue; omission of a day, when time is immaterial; of a place, in transitory actions, and the like, are only faults in form. Bac. Ab.
 See also: Action, Defend, State, Reference, Condition
  
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