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Contradictory

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Contradictive

Contradictory inconsistent

Contradictorily

In a contradictory manner

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Self contradictory

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Self repugnant

Self contradictory inconsistent

Contradictional

Contradictory inconsistent opposing

Inconsistent

Inconsistent, 'inconsistent', according to Black's Legal Dictionary, means mutually repugnant or contradictory; contrary, the one to the other so that both cannot stand, but the acceptance or establishment of the

Repugnancy

1990 SC 2072. See also AIR 1959 SC 648 (665). [Constitution of India, Art. 254] Repugnancy, denotes the contradictory of each other, said of clauses, Will, etc., A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 885.

Repugnant

to what is stated before. The rule of construction is that in a will the later of two contradictory clauses prevails, but in other writings the earlier. Conditions which are repugnant to a previous gift or limitation

Allegans contraria non est audiendus

contrary, B. L. Sreedhar v. K. M. Munireddy (2003) 2 SCC 355 (363). Jenk. Cent. 16.--(A person making contradictory allegations is not to be heard.) See Broom's Legal Maxims, and Buckland v. Johnson, (1854) 23 LJ CP

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