repugnancy

Repugnance \Re*pug"nance\ (-nans), Repugnancy \Re*pug"nan*cy\
   (-nan-s?), n. [F. r['e]pugnance, L. repugnantia.]
   The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition;
   contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism;
   aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions,
   principles, qualities, and the like.
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         That which causes us to lose most of our time is the
         repugnance which we naturally have to labor. --Dryden.
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         Let the foes quietly cut their throats,
         Without repugnancy.                      --Shak.
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   Syn: Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy;
        hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety;
        inconsistency. See {Dislike}.
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REPUGNANCY, contracts. That which in a contract, is inconsistent with 
something already contracted for; as, for example, where a man by deed 
grants twenty acres of land, excepting one, this latter clause is repugnant, 
and is to be rejected. But if a farm or tract of land is conveyed by general 
terms, in exception of any number of acres, or any particular lot, it is not 
repugnant, but valid. 4 Pick. 54; Vide 3 Pick. 272; 6 Cowen, 677. 
    

REPUGNANCY, pleading. Where the material facts stated in a declaration or 
other pleading, are inconsistent one with another for example, where in an 
action of trespass, the plaintiff declared for taking and carrying away 
certain timber, lying in a certain place, for the completion of a house then 
lately built; this declaration was considered bad, for repugnancy; for the 
timber could not be for the building of a house already built. 1 Salk. 213. 
     2. Repugnancy of immaterial facts, and what is merely redundant, and 
which need not have been put into the sentence, and contradicting what was 
before alleged, will not, in general, vitiate the pleading. Gilb. C. P. 131; 
Co. Litt. 303 b; 10 East, R. 142; 1 Chit. Pl. 233. See Lawes, Pl. 64; Steph. 
Pl. 378; Com. Dig. Abatement H 6; 1 Vin. Ab. 36; 19 Id. 45; Bac. Ab. 
Amendment, &c. E 2 Bac. Ab. Pleas, Ac. I 4 Vin. Ab. h.t.