splitting causes of action
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Bringing separate actions upon separate and distinct causes of action against the same person in lieu of joining all of such causes in one action. The practice, not permitted, of splitting one cause of action and maintaining successive suits for different parts. 1 Am J2d Actions § 127.
In applying the rule to the case of a contract twice broken, it has been facetiously observed that it is not permitted to make two suits out of one pair of breeches.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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