Irregularity
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Irregularity
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Meaning of Irregularity
The want of adherence to some prescribed rule or mode of proceedings; omitting to do something necessary to the orderly progress of the action or doing it at an improper time; the failure to observe that particular course of proceeding which, conformable with the practice of the court , ought to have been observed in the case.
Irregularity Alternative Definition
In practice. The doing or not doing that, in the conduct of a suit at law, which, conformably with the practice of the court, ought or ought not to be done. 115 111. 590. It is the technical term for every defect in proceedings or the mode of conducting an action or defense. It is a comprehensive term, including all formal objections to matters of practice. An irregularity is a formal but a nullity is a substantial defect. One applies chiefly to the manner, the other to the matter or merits of the proceeding; the for met is voidable, the latter absolutely void. As a general rule whenever there is any doubt upon the matter it will always be safer to treat the defect as an irregularity rather than as a nullity. 130 111. App. 588; Macnamara on Nullities and Irregularities in Law, 20.
Synonyms of Irregularity
noun
aberrance
aberrancy
aberration
abnormality
abnormity
anomaly
asymmetry
breach
changeableness
confusion
crookedness
desultoriness
deviation
disarrangement
discontinuity
disorder
disorderliness
distortion
divergence
eccentricity
exception
fitfulness
idiosyncrasy
illegality
imperfection
improperness
inconsistency
infringement
intermittence
jaggedness
lack of order
lack of propriety
lack of symmetry
lawlessness
lumpiness
malformation
malfunction
mutability
nonconformity
oddity
oddness
peculiarity
rarity
roughness
singularity
solecism
strangeness
turbulence
unconformity
unevenness
uniqueness
unnaturalness
unorthodoxy
unpunctuality
unruliness
unsmoothness
unsteadiness
ununiformity
unusualness
variability
variableness
variation
violation
want of method
wildness
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