countertechnicality

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ technicality

Noun

countertechnicality (countable and uncountable, plural countertechnicalities)

1. (rare) A technicality introduced in opposition to another technicality.
   • 1961, Walter Barton Leach, James K. Logan, Cases and Text on Future Interests and Estate Planning, page 179:

     Moreover, the judges, having announced a technical rule and having discovered that it worked badly, were astute to discover a remedy in some countertechnicality.

   • 2007, James Willard Hurst, The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers, page 104:

     Eventually such technicality bred countertechnicality, as courts resorted to fine points of procedural doctrine to escape those confines of the record to which the appellant or appellee might try to hold them.