Abatement of a writ
Abatement of a writ in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
Quashing or setting it aside on account of some fatal defect in it.1. A plea in abatement is one mode. Sometimes it is the duty of the court to abate a writ ex oficio. Where the writ is a nullity, so that judgment thereon would be incurably erroneous, it is de facto abated.2
Note: This legal definition of Abatement of a writ in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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