duplicity

duplicity
The technical fault in common law pleading of uniting two or more causes of action in one count in a writ, or two or more grounds of defense in one plea, or two or more breaches in a replication, or two or more offenses in the same count of an indictment, or two or more incongruous subjects in one legislative act, or two or more controverted ultimate issues submitted in a single special issue. Such duplicity of pleading in civil actions is permitted under Rule of Civil Procedure 8(e). Rule of "duplicity" prohibits the simultaneous charging of several distinct, unrelated crimes in one indictment. Mechling v. Stayton, D.C.Va., 361 F.Supp. 770, 772.
The joining in a single count of two or more distinct and separate offenses.State v. New Jersey Trade Waste Ass'n, 96 N.J. 8, 472 A.2d 1050, 1057.
See e.g. Fed.R.Crim.P. 8(a).
Deliberate deception or double dealing

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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