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avoidance definition - legal

n

  1. The act of keeping away from, escaping, evading, or preventing.
  2. Same as confession and avoidance.
  3. Same as tax avoidance.
  4. Same as voidance .

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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