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La Cassetur

Defined in 1 dictionary — Burrill (1850)

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Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

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.