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Miscontinuance

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In practice

A continuance of a suit by undue process. Its effect is the same as a discontinuance.

2 Hawk. P. C. 299; Kitch. Cts. 231; Jenk. Cent. Cas. 57.