Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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immaterial variance

See VARIANCE (1).

immaterial variance.

A variance that is too slight to mislead or prejudice the defendant, and is thus harmless error. 2. A license or official authorization to depart from a zoning law. - Also termed (in sense 2) zoning variance. Cf. SPECIAL EXCEPTION (2); SPECIAL-USE PERMIT.