Suspension

A temporary stop of a right, of a law, and the like. In times of war the right of habeas corpus may be suspended by lawful authority. expulsion of members under certain circumstances; State ex rel. v. Milwaukee Chamber of Com., 47 Wis. 670, 3 N. W. 760; Leech v. Harris, 2 Brews. (Pa.) 571. See Expulsion; Amotion; Stock Exchange. Suspension of a right in an estate is a partial extinguishment, or an extinguishment for a time. It differs from an extinguishment in this: a suspended right may be revived; one extinguished is absolutely dead; Bac. Abr. Extinguishment (A). The suspension of a statute for a limited time operates so as to prevent its operation for the time; but it has not the effect of a repeal; Brown v. Barry, 3 Dali. (U. S.) 365, 1 L. Ed. 638. For plea in suspension, see Plea; Abatement. Pleas in suspension are not specifically abolished in England by the Judicature Acts, though Ord. xix. rule 13, directs that no plea or defence shall be pleaded in abatement. Moz. & W. In Ecclesiastical Law. An ecclesiastical censure, by which a spiritual person is cither interdicted the exercise of his ecclesiastical function or hindered from receiving the profits of his benefice. It may be partial or total; for a limited time, or forever, when it is called deprivation or amotion. Ayliffe, Parer g.

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