Suspension
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A cesser for a time; a temporary stopping of some authority, power, proceeding, right, &c. Thus there may be a suspension of power of alienation; a suspension of the liaheas corpus; a suspension of the running of the statute of limitations; a suspension of a right.