Variance

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

II. Variance ·noun Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.

III. Variance ·noun A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, — as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.