Abolition [fr. abolir, Fr.; aboleo, Lat.], a destroying; also the leave given by the sovereign or judges to a criminal accuser to desist from further prosecution, 25 Hen. 8, c. 21.
Abolition means, 'to destroy, extinguish, abrogate or annihilate', Gurdit Singh Aulakh v. State of Punjab, (1974) 2 SCC 592: AIR 1974 SC 2058. [Rules of Business of the Govt. of. Punjab, (1953) R. 28(1)(XXII)]
Means the act of abolishing, the state of being annulled or abrogate; the legal termination of slavery in the United States; in civil law a sovereign's remission of punishment for a crime, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.
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