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Quash [cassum facere, Lat.; casser, Fr.], to overthrow or annul-Bracton; as to quash an indictment, or order of justices, or a poor-rate. See CERTIORARI....
quash
quash [Anglo-French quasser, from Middle French casser quasser, from Late Latin cassare, from Latin cassus void] : to make void : annul [ a subpoena] ...
Cassetur breve
Cassetur breve (that the writ be quashed). When the defendant pleaded sufficient matter in abatement and the plaintiff could not deny it, he could either obtain leave to amend his declaration, or he might at once enter on the roll a casetur breve, or judgment upon his prayer that his writ might be quashed, to the intent that he might sue out a better, 2 Chit. Arch. Prac. Pleas in abatement are, however, now abolished by the Judicature Act, 1875. See Abatement....
peremption
peremption [Late Latin peremption- peremptio, the act of quashing, from Latin perimere to take away entirely, destroy, kill] in the civil law of Louisiana : the absolute extinguishment of a right that prevents the bringing of an action [a claim barred by ] ;also : the period of time after which such an extinguishment automatically occurs compare prescription ...
quashal
quashal : an act of quashing something [opposed the of the indictment] ...
Cass
To render useless or void to quash to annul to reject to send away...
Peremption
A quashing a defeating...
Quash
Same as Squash...
Abatement
Abatement, a making less:-(1) Abatement of Freehold.-The title of a real action which has been abolished. This takes place where a person dies seised of an inheritance, and before the heir or devisee enters, a stranger, having no right, makes a wrongful entry and gets possession of it. Such an entry is technically called an abatement, and the stranger an abater. It is, in fact, a figurative expression, denoting that the rightful possession or freehold of the heir or devisee is overthrown by the unlawful intervention of a stranger. Abatement differs from intrusion, in that it is always to the prejudice of the heir or immediate devisee, whereas the latter is to the prejudice of the reversioner or remainder man: and disseisin differs from them both, for to disseise is to put forcibly or fraudulently a person seised of the freehold out of possession, Co. Litt. 277a.(2) Abatement of Nuisances.-A remedy allowed by law to a person injured by a nuisance to remove or put an end to it by his own...
Array
Array [fr. aredare, It., to get ready], to rank or set forth a jury of men impannelled upon a cause. to challenge the array of the pannel is at once to except against all persons arrayed or impannelled, in respect of partiality or some default in the sheriff, Co. Litt. 156 a. If the sheriff to be affinity to any of the parties, or if anyone or more of the jurors are returned at the nomination of either party, or for any other partiality, the array shall be quashed, See Archbold's Criminal Pleading....
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