double pleading

double pleading
A pleading which in one count or paragraph sets out two or more several and distinct causes of action or two or more several and distinct defenses. Handy v Waldron, 18 RI 567, 29 A 143. See duplicity.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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