irregularity

A failure to follow appropriate and necessary rules of practice or procedure, omitting some act essential to the due and orderly conduct of the action or proceeding, or doing it in an improper manner. Sache v Gillette, 101 Minn 169, 112 NW 386. A violation or nonobservance of established rules and practices. State ex rel. West v Des Moines, 96 Iowa 521, 65 NW 818. The failure to observe that particular course of proceeding which, conformably with the practice of the court, ought to have been observed in the case. Griggs v Hanson, 86 Kan 632, 121 P 1094. Such a defect as consists either in omitting to do something that is necessary to the due and orderly conduct of a suit, or doing it in an unseasonable time or improper manner. Salter v Hilgen, 40 Wis 363, 365. The word must be given a broad enough meaning to cover a case where the court has acted upon an erroneous understanding of the facts. Such has been the practical construction placed upon it. Cooper v Rhea, 82 Kan 109, 107 P 799. A direct violation of an ordinance in regard to the manner in which a municipal corporation shall enter into a contract is not a mere irregularity, but is a substantial defect rendering such a contract unenforceable. Holbrook v Girand, 52 Ariz 291, 80 P2d 695.