Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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duplicity

n. 1. Deceitfulness; double-dealing. 2. The pleading of two or more distinct grounds of complaint or defense for the same issue. 0 In criminal law, this takes the form of joining two or more offenses in the same count of an indictment. - Also termed double pleading. Cf. alternative pleading under PLEADING (2); double plea under PLEA (3).