surplusage

A surplus; a superabundance.

If then thee list my offred grace to vse, / Take what thou please of all this surplusage; / If thee list not, leaue haue thou to refuse […]

A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.

Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected.

A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.

1802–1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature one third-part of the surplusage of the estate of any person dying intetate, hall be distributed to his widow,and the reidue amongt his children by equal portions