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splitting causes of action<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Bringing separate actions upon separate and distinct causes of action<\/a> against the same person in lieu of joining all of such causes in one action.\u00a0 The practice, not permitted, of splitting one\u00a0 cause of action<\/a> and maintaining successive suits for different parts. 1 Am J2d Actions \u00a7 127<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In applying the rule to the case of a contract twice broken, it has been facetiously observed that it is not permitted to make two suits out of the pair of breaches<\/a>.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>by Henry Campbell Black & Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[2]: Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/strong>with Pronunciations
\n<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>Third Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/b><\/span><\/strong>Legal Assistant Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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