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discontinuance

dis·con·tin·u·ance

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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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After the partition, the invention of the Armenian alphabet, and the translation of the Bible into the vernacular, 410, drew the Armenians together, and the discontinuance of Greek in the Holy Offices relaxed the ecclesiastical dependence on Constantinople, which ceased entirely when the Patriarch, 491, refused to accept the decrees of the council of Chalcedon.
To the same tendency doubtless is due the gradual decline and ultimate discontinuance of animal sacrifices by all sects except the extreme branch of Sakti-worshippers.
The most remarkable instance of this policy was the discontinuance of the consulship. This great office had remained a dignity centuries after it had ceased to be a power; but it was a very costly dignity, the holder being expected to spend large sums in public displays.
The contracted state, instead of rapidly subsiding after discontinuance of the stimulus, slowly and only partially wears off, the muscle remaining in a condition of physiological "contracture."
It was made a special subject of criticism by the Democratic party of the North, which was now organizing itself on the basis of a discontinuance of the war, to endeavour to win the presidential election of the following year.

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