Confession and avoidance

Summary

“A plea in bar, admitting the matter of fact in the declaration to be true, but showing some new matter of fact tending to obviate or take off its legal effect.”

“Confession, and Avoidance,” in Wharton, Law Lexicon, or Dictionary of Jurisprudence, 125.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Wharton, J. J. S. The Law Lexicon, or Dictionary of Jurisprudence. . . London: Spettigue and Farrance, 1848.

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