confession and avoidance
C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A pleading that admits the opponent's facts but introduces new matter defeating their legal effect.
Rather than deny the debt, the defence proceeded by confession and avoidance, admitting the loan but pleading that it had been repaid.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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