discontinuance

dis·con·tin·u·ance

a stopping or being stopped; cessation or interruption
Law the stopping of a legal action prior to trial, either voluntarily by the plaintiff or by order of the court

Origin of discontinuance

Middle English from Anglo-Fr: see discontinue and -ance

discontinuance

noun

The act or an instance of discontinuing or the condition of being discontinued; cessation.
Law
a. The plaintiff's failure to proceed in a legal action.
b. The plaintiff's agreement to the dismissal of a legal action.

discontinuance

Noun

(plural discontinuances)

The occurrence of something being discontinued; a cessation; an ending.

Origin

Anglo-Norman, from Old French discontinuer.

discontinuance - Legal Definition

n

The voluntary termination of litigation by a plaintiff who has elected not to pursue it or by both parties pursuant to a settlement.

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Sentence Examples

Fitzherbert, in deploring the gradual discontinuance of the practice of marling land, had alluded to the grievance familiar in modern times of tenants "who, if they should marl and make their holdings much better, fear lest they should be put out, or make a great fine or else pay more rent."
In 1828, shortly after the discontinuance of the Farmers' Magazine, its Prize Essays and Transactions began to be issued statedly in connexion with the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture.
Several of the Spanish American states, on declaring their independence, had adopted measures for the discontinuance of slavery within their limits.
This figure reached an average of 18,250 in 1873-1877, and from about 1880 until the discontinuance of the system in 1900 an average of 20,000 persons were annually exiled to Siberia.
(2) The second arbitration before the Hague court was more important than the first, not only because so many of the great powers were concerned in it, but also because it brought about the discontinuance of acts of war.

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