“confession and avoidance”

We have one entry that includes the term confession and avoidance.

plea in confession and avoidance

: a plea admitting that the plaintiff once had a good cause of action as alleged but that it is barred by some subsequent or collateral matter pleaded in defense (as a repeal of the statute on which the cause of action is founded)


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