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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. (That the bill be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment i^r the defendant on a plea in abatement, where the action was commenced by bill, {billa.) 3 BL Com, 303.

Steph, PL 128, 131. (Am. ed. 1824).

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 confessed and avoided, nor traversed, nor demurred to; amounting in fact to a discontinuance of the action.

2 Arch, Pr, 3, 236. 1 Tidd's Pr. 683.