countertechnicality
countertechnicality noun: a technicality introduced in opposition to another technicality.
Noun
countertechnicality (countable and uncountable, plural countertechnicalities)
- A technicality introduced in opposition to another technicality.
- Moreover, the judges, having announced a technical rule and having discovered that it worked badly, were astute to discover a remedy in some countertechnicality.1961, Walter Barton Leach, James K. Logan, Cases and Text on Future Interests and Estate Planning, page 179
- Eventually such technicality bred countertechnicality, as courts resorted to fine points of procedural doctrine to escape those confines of the record to which the appellant or appellee might try to hold them.2007, James Willard Hurst, The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers, page 104
Forms of countertechnicality
| plural | countertechnicalities |
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Origin of countertechnicality
From counter- + technicality.
Questions about countertechnicality
- What does countertechnicality mean?
- Countertechnicality means a technicality introduced in opposition to another technicality.
- What part of speech is countertechnicality?
- Countertechnicality is a noun.
- What is the plural of countertechnicality?
- The plural of countertechnicality is countertechnicalities.
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