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Cassetur Bella

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

(Lat That the bill be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment for the defendant on a pica in abatement, where the action was commenced by bill, (billa.) 3 Bl. Comm. 303; Steph. PL 128, 131. The form of an entry made by a plaintiff on the record, after a plea in abatement, where he found that the plea could not be cohfessed and avoided, nor traversed, nor demurred to; amounting in fact to a discontinuance of the action.

2 Anchb. Pr. K. B. 3, 236; 1 Tidd, Pr. 683.